Word: depending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When students withhold their U.C. fee, they're hurting their own organizations. Many organizations depend on the U.C. as their only source of funding...
...committee's plans include meetings withadministrators, an open letter to theadministration and finding a tenured professor tosponsor Asian-American studies courses. Furthersteps will depend on administration response, Yoonsaid...
Nonetheless, the millennium is freighted with immense historical symbolism and psychological power. It does not depend on objective calculation, but entirely on what people bring to it -- their hopes, their anxieties, the metaphysical focus of their attention. The millennium is essentially an event of the imagination...
Economies now depend on the relentless search for new needs, new markets. Democracy by its nature spurs change: no other system replaces leaders and rewrites the social contract with such speed because none other presupposes that government renew its right to govern virtually every day. The rise of individualism across the world speeds change because ideas about how to live now emanate from millions of minds rather than a handful of institutional authorities. Communications technology is eroding the meaning of nationality, ethnicity and borders...
...destiny. The biggest intellectual battle of the future is likely to occur between those who believe that this drive can be governed by humankind alone and those who contend that it must be subject to the restraints of nature and the divine. The shape of things to $ come will depend heavily on who prevails in this debate...