Word: depending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of black Africa has no choice but to depend on foreign aid to pull out of its current economic difficulties. After decades of independence, many African leaders, once seduced by the promises of doctrinaire socialism, have accepted the advantages of private initiative and the free-market system...
...people have heard of Dean Le-Baron, but thousands of Americans unknowingly depend on him for a large part of their financial security. From a computer-filled command post on the twelfth floor of the Federal Reserve Bank building in Boston, LeBaron manages more than $10 billion of other people's money. Every day, LeBaron and his competitors make stock and bond transactions that can earn, or lose, millions of dollars for their clients. Their decisions can shake markets and send the prices of individual stocks into orbits or nosedives. For their skill and nerve, they receive salaries that...
...special issue, "How to Get to the Year 2000," the editors of "Ms." write that the problems confronting society, including the threat of nuclear war, are the result of a male dominated set of values and that, "survival may depend on a revolution in values: and one of the leaders of that revolution is Carol Gilligan...
Increasingly, and perhaps irreversibly, audiences for American mainstream music will depend, even insist, on each song's being a full audiovisual confrontation. Why should sound alone be enough when sight is only as far away as the TV set or the video machine? Whole generations have had their brains fried with a cathode ray tube, a condition that creates a certain impatience and shortness of attention when limited to aural input. Posterity can rest easy-as Billy Joel points out, "Beethoven didn't have no videos, and he's been hanging in there"-but for rockers, popsters...
Democratic party leaders dutifully pronounced their outrage at the latest Administration slur. But few even took the time to rebuke Meese with specifics. Most forgot to point out, for example, that some 20 million Americans depend on food stamps to eat and that tens of thousands more--who don't qualify for federal assistance thanks to the Administration's draconian eligibility requirements--have been forced into soup kitchens. But it must have been party politics that prevented Democrats from giving Reagan's men credit for being so egalitarian about whom they go about alienating...