Word: depending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal deficit, Congress and the Bush Administration are determined to shear billions of dollars from military outlays. As a result, anxious defense-industry + executives from New York's Long Island to Los Angeles are frantically lobbying to keep their weapons programs alive. Tens of thousands of jobs depend on the decisions now being made on Capitol Hill...
...Terrorists are the people who place bombs in the suitcases of their unsuspecting girlfriends. A death is a sacrifice to God. A dead brother is a martyr, not a victim. Bartering with terrorists constitutes either a bill too large to pay or a technique too unreliable upon which to depend...
...forfeiture provisions to grab more than $600 million in property from drug traffickers. Said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh: "This is a notable victory in the war on drugs." The rulings were denounced, however, by defense attorneys who fear that the fate of both their livelihood and their clients may depend on the whim of law-enforcement officials. "No one who has law school loans, a mortgage to pay and kids to feed can afford to practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Noted University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar...
Simultaneously, however, U.S. executives are putting ideas of new investments on hold until they can see what sort of political and business climate emerges from the present turmoil. The wait may be a long one, and even when it ends, Western involvement will depend on whether the eventual winners are receptive to foreign influence or are isolationist hard-liners. Thermo Electron, a Waltham, Mass., company, is negotiating to build in China a $110 million co-generation plant that would turn out electric power and ferrosilicon metal by reusing the same fuel (coal). But, says chief executive George Hatsopoulos...
...Having smaller classes, especially for the first year; working with professors and having individual work recognized rather than having everything depend on one exam at the end of the year; and receiving more feedback are improvements that all students would like," says Ferrell...