Word: depending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Future funding for the contras is likely to depend on their doing something they have never yet managed to do: pose a genuine threat to the Sandinistas, showing once and for all that they are not merely a band on the run. The Administration insists it is optimistic. "We think there are things that can happen between now and the summertime that would be a good influence on receiving the money in September," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Noted Abrams: "By September there will be in excess of 15,000 men inside Nicaragua fighting hard...
...Executive Producer Tom Bettag. "What you're going to lose is a reporter on the scene when you wish you had a reporter on the scene. You cannot have less original reporting and not have the quality suffer." CBS, like both of its belt-tightening network rivals, will probably depend more often on footage from other sources, such as local stations and syndicated services. Indeed, Rather has already begun narrating more stories on the CBS Evening News, stories that might earlier have been handled by a reporter in the field...
...regarded teachers who have left Harvard junior posts to distinguish themselves as full professors at other schools. This trend has motivated Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to make tenuring Harvard's own top young scholars a top priority, and the Faculty recognizes that its future strength may depend on the dean's success. The challenge now is for Harvard to identify outstanding ability--both, faculty members say, in research and teaching--early in a scholarly career...
...Graham, Francis H. Duehay '55 and Alice Wolf said they had received complaints that independent cab drivers who use radio dispatching services frequently do not answer the less lucrative calls from passengers who wish to travel short distances. They said many of these people are elderly or handicapped, and depend heavily on cab service...
...term is misleading because people who depend on grimy mattresses and self-righteous church ladies' handouts do not fit into any category smaller than that of the supremely unlucky. Especially in recent years, the people who turn up at shelters and free meals are not all unwashed bums. An increasing number are women, many have spouses or families, most strive to keep up appearances...