Word: depending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they come to New York? For one thing, the city has a tradition of tolerance, or at least a laissez-faire obliviousness, which amounts to the same thing. Partly too, it is the reassurance of being among one's own kind. * An immigrant from almost any country can depend on finding transplanted countrymen in the city. But there is also something appealing, it seems, about joining the larger swarm of immigrants in New York, of being on a patch that is in turn part of a patchwork quilt. Where practically everyone is an alien, no one is alien. "There...
...this spring submitted testimony during the debates in the state legislature and last week wrote a letter to The Boston Globe in favor of the measure, said Harvard has a vital interest in guaranteeing the financial stability of Boston because he said Harvard workers, faculty, and students depend on the way Boston appears and operates...
...crisis since the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Beirut ranks among the most hazardous assignments in the world, a bloody, berserk place where journalists often are kidnaping targets. Reliable information is elusive and often impossible to confirm. Even the most enterprising correspondents last week had to depend for news on the cooperation of those holding the hostages. Yet in their eager pursuit of the story, reporters risked being exploited by Amal. What began as a frenzied hijacking threatened to become a prolonged publicity showcase controlled by terrorists...
...success of the Mengele investigation will ultimately depend on the availability and quality of old documents, dental charts, X rays and medical records. "This is the decisive point and, I think, the weak point in the Mengele case," observes Rainer Knussmann, an anthropologist at the University of Hamburg. Mengele's 1938 dental records (a written description of the teeth, not including X rays), received last week from West Germany, proved to be "imprecise" and "incomplete," according to Ayrton Martini, director of the Sao Paulo state police scientific department. Also, there is scant information on a pelvic fracture Mengele is said...
...short bursts of solvency proves too much for his parents' marriage. When they tell Mark, at age 14, that they are divorcing, he grieves, blames the world for blighting their happiness and reaches a decision: "People are monsters and I'd better get rich or I'll have to depend on monsters." After reading a book on sunken treasures, Mark becomes obsessed with finding a ship laden with the spoils of Peru that went down en route to the Caribbean in 1820. Years of research, to the exclusion of his schoolwork and to his father's growing annoyance, yield...