Word: depends
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...fact, NATO's European defense strategy has long been based on the assumption that the allies might not counter a full-scale conventional attack by the Soviets, and thus must depend on a possible nuclear response as a deterrent. That is not, however, an issue the Administration wants to see publicly debated, particularly by members of its own Cabinet. The White House and the Pentagon issued a statement papering over the disagreement, but it did little to erase the impression of disarray among Administration policymakers...
...seemed natural." Rogan believes that arguments about women's participation in the Army are now academic. "Women want to serve, and the Army needs the women's contribution if it is to become truly representative of the country it must defend." But the issue may very well depend on whether the volunteer force continues, or the country goes back to the draft...
...Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin. He said that he found the White House lobbying gentle by comparison with that of interested corporations. A delegation of 26 businessmen with contracts in Saudi Arabia flew up from Alabama to tell him that a whole lot of jobs, including maybe his own, might depend on how he voted. Democrat David Pry or of Arkansas got a pro-AWACS call from Mobil Oil President William Tavoulareas. Seattle-based Boeing, which builds the AWACS, put pressure on Washington's Gorton. A week before the vote, Republican Senators opposed to the sale got a tongue-lashing...
...Kingdom come on earth," I mean I want Atlanta to look like heaven." The author of that lofty sentiment, Andrew Young, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was elected mayor of Atlanta last week. But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days. Young, 49, a former Congressman and lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., accused his opponent, white businessman and State Legislator Sidney Marcus, 53, of trying to "buy off" black leaders by hiring...
...allowing the city to proceed with much needed repairs and widely desired improvements. But a petition drive was underway aimed at construction of a bridge that would cost at least a million dollars. And the Chronicle suspected the railway was behind it: "If the Charles River Railway is to depend on plundering the city treasury as well as the Union road, the people should rise against it and crush it before it gets any larger...