Word: depending
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...special, said Ogletree, is "part of a bigger, more ambitious agenda to get people to appreciate the significance of the Constitution in the 20th century." He said WGBH may produce a follow-up presentation, but it will depend on public reaction...
Because Mozambique is a coastal nation, land-locked Black African countries, such as Zambia and Zimbabwe, depend on its ports for commercial contact, he said. It is to South Africa's economic and political advantage to disrupt routes of trade in Mozambique and appropriate commercial traffic for itself, the journalist said...
...problems were wrenching because academia and industry are fundamentally incompatible. Academics are concerned with the search for truth, no matter how irrelevant the subject may appear to be. Industry focuses on applied research, on developing a useful product and rushing it to market. Professors depend on openness of communication, on sharing news of discoveries to further the advancement of knowledge and research. Industry relies on secrecy, on keeping information about products and processes from competitors...
...long and how well one lives, of course, depend in part on heredity. The chances of blowing out 85 candles go up 5% with each parent or grandparent who has passed that milestone. A family history of certain ailments, such as breast or colon cancer, heart disease, depression or alcoholism, extends the risk of developing such problems. Increasingly, though, researchers believe personal habits and environmental influences may hold the key to why some people are more "successful" at aging than are others. "You find a tremendous variability between individuals," observes Rowe. "The older people become, the less alike they become...
...superpowers won't allow the U.N. to keep its "eyes and ears in areas of conflict," he said. The U.S. and the Soviet Union "want to make the Secretary-General depend on them...