Word: depending
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...second measure of success lies in the marchers' legacy, which will depend entirely on decisions awaiting the Bush Administration. What the demonstrators want is high-priority consideration of the housing issue. What they want are answers. Will Bush and the Congress produce a housing policy to compensate for eight years of abuse and neglect at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)? Will they reinvigorate that atrophied agency, currently limping along on a $7 billion budget, slashed from $32 billion since Reagan took office...
...Healy warned that the coming decade could prove to be a difficult financial period for Cambridge. "Now as we enter a new decade, the City finds itself in a transitional period. The slow down of the local economy means that the City can no longer depend upon continued increases in state aid and increased tax levy limits due to new construction, two factors that contributed greatly to the financial strength of the 1980s. If the trend of the past 12 months continues, and there is no indication that it won't, the City and our citizens will be faced with...
...tobacco companies to conquer Asian markets. Since 1986, U.S. trade negotiators have helped cigarette makers break down import barriers in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. As a result, America's worldwide cigarette exports reached $2.6 billion last year, double the sales of 1986. The U.S. industry has come to depend on exports for growth, since a declining number of Americans are smoking. Consumption of cigarettes in the U.S. has fallen about 2% a year, to a volume of 562 billion...
...After the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops the war will continue," Hun Sen told reporters Sunday. "As to the scope of the war, we think it will depend on foreign countries," he said...
...importance of an international frame of mind. At the same time, Harvard must acknowledge that it no longer enjoys the uncontested preeminence in academia that it has for most of its existence. Attracting top-flight students and faculty, as well as offering the finest learning opportunities, will increasingly depend on providing a truly international education...