Word: depending
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These three categories have remained stable for the last few years, Anthony Sarkis says, and customers have come to depend on them...
...Kosovo air campaign, and the end to the conflict seems now to depend mostly on the domestic political concerns of the key players. "Both sides are really eager to stop this now, which gives peace talks their momentum," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Now it's a question of what both sides think they can get away with domestically -- of how much President Clinton will be able to compromise while still making the result appear to be a victory." The three key players in the diplomatic endgame -- Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott...
...iconoclast who became Daimler-Benz chairman in 1995, had already slashed the company's divisions from 35 to 25--taking tens of thousands of jobs along the way. It was an outrageous move in a country where labor rules. Schrempp wanted a new empire that would no longer depend on luxury cars, which were becoming prohibitively expensive to produce...
...fight in Afghanistan. "Somebody had to know he was coming up here and training people," says Dowell. "This case is going to highlight the need for a hard look at the effect of interagency rivalry and of budget cuts on the state of U.S. intelligence." Convicting Mohamed may depend on being able to prove his involvement in a conspiracy -- after all, simply providing training to Muslim fundamentalists who later turned against the U.S. is a charge that could apply more widely to Washington's Afghan war operation...
...many pensioners, present and future, would be terrified of having their retirement income depend heavily on the short-term ups and downs of Wall Street. They would have to be guaranteed a fairly high pension still paid out of regular Social Security taxes--currently 12.4% of each employee's wages, split between worker and boss--no matter what...