Word: depends
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...about as quaint as a fairy tale. Earlier this week, Harvard successfully concluded negotiations with Morris P. Fiorina, a California Institute of Technology political scientist who applies empirical data to topics in the American electoral process. And last week, the Sociology Department made offers to three scholars who depend on computers for their research in social issues...
There is no nation in the world that the American people value more highly than Britain; none to which they feel deeper personal and moral kinship; none for which they would sacrifice more, including their lives; and none on which they so depend for precisely the same attitude. Many Irish Americans understandably don't feel this way, of course, and Hispanics and other minorities may regard the sceptered isle with vast indifference. But on the whole, affection for the Crown is intense here. This may seem odd, given America's origins, but it is so nonetheless...
...others of Business Week, remdus- trialization" would relay not only supply-side whimsy, but explicit federal allocation of capital. A renovated Reconstruction Finance Corporation would direct huge subsidies to promising growth industries and bail out a few more important declining industries. In both cases, however, reindustrialization funds depend on workers agreeing to wage restraint. And according to Business Week, "destabilizing" goals such as affirmative action and environmental repair must be deferred, so as not to upset the "social compact...
...possibility of their use, which in turn would very probably topple us into the abyss; therefore nuclear weapons represent an absolute evil, an ever present threat of total death embedded in the political life of our planet. Insofar as our traditional ("pre-nuclear") notions of national security and sovereignty depend on maintaining and threatening to use nuclear weapons, those notions are obsolete and, more to the point, dangerous. They must be recognized as such and discarded. Politics must be reinvented: existing institutions must give way to some sort of transcendent sovereignty and security, presumably by a government that embraces...
...LINE in the Gomes Report foreshadowed the fate of the Race Relations Foundation: "Its 'success,' we wish to suggest, will depend not so much upon the structure that emerges, but rather on the spirit in which all members of this community consider the opportunities that confront...