Word: depending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efficient functioning of the incoming Congress will depend on the ability of moderate Senate Republicans, like Baker and Robert Dole of Kansas, to broker consensus policies acceptable to both Reagan and the House Democratic leadership. For this to work, Helms and his band of renegade Republicans must be controlled better than they were during the lameduck session. In addition, Reagan, who up to now has had great success in persuading Congress to do his bidding, must show that he also has the flexibility to work with the institution when it asserts more independence. Otherwise, the pendulum will swing from...
What happens to bonds in 1983 will depend crucially on the Federal Reserve. Having stressed repeatedly since 1979 that it was determined to prevent the money supply from expanding out of control, the Fed since midsummer has allowed money to grow at an annual rate that is now approaching 17%, just about three times the bank's own officially announced 1982 target growth rate. Though the Fed has sought to play down the significance of the overshoot, investors are concerned that the growth will eventually prove inflationary, provoking the Fed to tighten up, sending interest rates soaring...
...this case, Les (Keith Charles) wants to retrieve his old happiness as a baseball broadcaster, while Bess (Holland Taylor) wants to keep climbing the celebrity ladder. Conceits of this sort always depend for their success on sending the audience out whistling their moral codes, but Lee Kalcheim is an amiable writer with a gift for constructing tight comic spots for Taylor and Charles to battle in and out of. The actress makes a tough lady sympathetic; the actor is a canny counterpuncher. Together they reinvent that splendid theatrical institution, the unhappy marriage, that no playwright looking for laughs should ever...
Without size or strength, he must depend on skill to defeat his hellfire competition. "For someone strong it's easy to muscle it out there," Quintero explains. "But since I'm weaker than most of the throwers, I rely on technique...
...have the kind of Cabinet operation we do, and that's why we picked the kind of people we have in the Cabinet, because of their expertise in those fields. I couldn't possibly be an expert in all of them. So I depend on them to get an explanation...