Word: depends
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...life--that sustains the movie. Ultimately, Author! Author! is not a typical "family film." As much as it extolls family life, its final message is on, of praise for individuality and self-assurance. Ivan learns to share his success and failure with his family, but not to depend upon or blame them...
...countries because they can pay two to three times more than the going local wage. They therefore attract the brightest workers, and that can determine the direction of economic development. Another prestige job in the Third World is that of bus driver. Reason: poor people in a carless society depend on them for transportation...
Meanwhile, Thatcher pressed the U.S. to take part in a postwar Falklands peace-keeping force. Haig responded noncommittally that Washington's position "would depend very much on the conditions establishing such a force, its mandate and the political framework under which...
...champ. If Stallone is a man of steel, he is scarcely a man of irony, and he handles Rocky III as he has handled all of his writing and directing efforts, with heart-in-the-right-place primitivism. That is not necessarily a defect in movies that depend for effectiveness on walloping blows to the audience's emotional solar plexus. Stallone is unabashedly faithful to his character and his friends. The old gang is reassembled. Talia Shire is freshly steadfast and inspirational as Rocky's wife Adrian, Burgess Meredith is back as the wizened trainer Mickey and Burt...
Harvard has no civil defense plan of its own. In the event of a nuclear war, the survival of the University's population would depend on a newly revamped scheme that state civil defense officials predict would reduce the civilian death toll in Massachusetts by 40 percent. But many citizens, city officials and area congressmen have opposed proposed increases in civil defense spending, calling the mass run-and-hide scenario implausible and wasteful. The debate has raised the crucial question of whether Americans should devote large amounts of money and intellectual energy to trying to survive a nuclear attack...