Word: depends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harem paints a poignant picture of two boys, Pat and Madjid (Remi Martin and Kader Boukhanef), who commit aimless acts of delinquency, wandering through the streets of a French village with nothing to depend on except their friendship. Through this portrait, the film also addresses some essential questions in society, from racism to poverty to the meaning of life...
...primitive two-way radio. At first, allied analysts are skeptical about the information, but it turns out to be crucial. Here Clancy goes off automatic pilot; there are even a few romantic interludes, as if to remind the reader that the most brilliantly designed war games must depend, sooner or later, on that unpredictable computer called the human brain...
...their charges are valid. But then again, in a society in which security forces snatched people off the street in broad daylight simply because they shared a last name with someone the government suspected of having guerrilla connections, in which the economy is 60 percent government controlled and most depend on Government House to put their daily bread on the table, and in which years of military dictatorship have left the lesson that if you are quiet and obedient you will survive, everyone to a certain extent condoned the military. Everyone was both a victim and an accomplice. Except...
...Democratic lawmakers, Babbitt proposes that most government benefits, from Social Security to farm subsidies, be "means tested." That idea, even when coupled with a pledge of support for the family farm, did not endear Babbitt to some of Iowa's hard-pressed growers, whose middle-class life-styles depend on government subsidies. Said one, Jon Malloy of Essex: "I'm impressed with his intelligence and his ideas, but I'm not comfortable that he would give us the help we need right...
...some of the high school age students say that just having the college experience is as rewarding as the dance classes. "It's a taste of independence," says Amy Landau, a high school senior from Scarsdale, N.Y. "You're thrown into a situation where you have to totally depend on yourself to get where you're going...