Word: depending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long career at his alma mater. Hopefully, though, the scores of alumni from the past several decades will prove their commitment to preserving what many (including myself) consider the best part of their Harvard experience. Although the administration certainly does not live in undergraduate housing, the University will always depend upon our continued contributions...
What's different now is that there are so few ideologues among us. Big Think has been thoroughly discredited. Campus activists are by definition uncool and they frequently complain that they can't get the favorable coverage they used to depend on from the paleo-liberal Crimson...
Still, there is the prospect that in the short run, certain Americans would end up losers. Senior citizens, for instance, would not only have to bear cuts in Medicare; those who depend on investments in certificates of deposit might see their incomes drop as interest rates fall. But they could take heart from realizing that they were helping their children and children's children. "People have to make short-term, identifiable sacrifices in exchange for the promise of distant, diffuse and amorphous benefits of a stronger, healthier economy," says Martha Phillips of the Concord Coalition, an antideficit group...
...truism is true," he writes," and the criminal is like an artist (though not for the reasons usually given, which merely depend on immaturity and the condition of self-employment): the criminal resembles the artist in his pretension, his incompetence and his self-pity...
...Teaching fellows and other instructionalsupport staff are required to attend lectures ofthe courses in which they are employed, unless inthe judgment of the course head the nature oftheir work for the course does not depend on thecontent of the lectures," the Council's resolutionreads...