Word: depends
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...more people out in the street, marching." Brutus reflects on his anti-apartheid activities in America and South Africa with considerable satisfaction, but also with a sense of how great the task is for the future. As for his own plans, Brutus smiles wryly. "They depend, I suppose, on God and the Imagination Services...
...changed in Central America, that Tio Sam cannot ignore until the last desperate moments what is occurring not all that far south of the border. As events during the past months have proved dramatically, the U.S. has a vital interest in Central America's future. That interest will ultimately depend on forming a genuine partnership with the region. Says Fernando Volio, who will be Costa Rica's next foreign minister: é "We don't want to be involved in the global confrontation just for the sake of the superpowers. We want the U.S. to be involved for our sake...
...last week's battle action showed, the rebels are becoming increasingly bold. Their morale is clearly improving, while the soldiers' is declining, a major problem facing the army. Although the guerrillas are receiving equipment from outside sources, their success does not depend upon the quality of the rifles they carry. Indeed, journalists who have made numerous and often unscheduled visits to rebel units find that the most common armament is still a weathered carbine, and the heaviest a .50-cal. machine...
Those egos will have to shrink, along with authors' incomes, as paperback houses become a greater force in publishing. More and more often now, they depend on generic categories-romances (25% to 30% of all fiction sold), mysteries, historical sagas and scifi. According to Sociologist Walter Powell, co-author of Books, the Culture and Commerce of Publishing: "Fiction may no longer be part of the mass market. It looks very dismal for people who want to make a living writing novels...
...that night, the reaction on which Haig told me the President's decision would depend had become plain for all to see. The Senate Republican whip, Robert Griffin, asked for Nixon's resignation. Vice President Ford dissociated himself, saying: "The public interest is no longer served by repetition of my previously expressed belief that on the basis of all the evidence known to me, the President is not guilty of an impeachable offense...