Word: depending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your car. If you've got one, drive it everywhere. Having to rely on public transportation is like having to depend on Viagra. When you're in the mood to do something, it's no fun waiting for the train to pull up to the station. At home you can just hop in the driver's seat, pop on the radio...
...thesis dominate your life. It is normal, if not healthy, to minimize your extracurricular commitments, put little effort into other classes and become something of a hermit. But don't forget to take breaks and have fun. In the end, whether you get a magna or magna plus will depend more on how unique your topic is, how good a writer you are and who your readers are than on whether you stayed in that night in February instead of going out to drink or see a movie with your roommates. When the weeks start to roll by and deadline...
...quoted UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who said, "In today's world, we depend on each other. The business of the United Nations is the business of the world...
...recommend outside vendors? Some businesses do all this the old-fashioned way, with the customer sending his billing address, credit-card number and expiration date via e-mail. At the business end, someone still has to call to get credit-card approval and calculate taxes and shipping costs, which depend on the weight of the package. And outsourcing credit-card processing to a check- or credit-clearing agency can be expensive. Many companies will include this, along with calculating taxes and calculating the weight of merchandise free. When someone buys fish from Hanson, all he has to do is pack...
...agent of technology. When James Watt built the first steam engines 200 years ago, he had intuition but not the laws of thermodynamics to guide him. We do not sufficiently applaud our century's discovery that science can be useful--or the degree to which science has come to depend on technology for its new instruments: powerful telescopes, atom smashers, computers...