Word: depends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer networks rely on atomic clocks to synchronize the flow of trillions of bits of information, thus avoiding mammoth electronic logjams. TV and radio stations use the clocks to time their broadcasts. The armed forces employ them in satellite-based navigation systems and smart- missile guidance. And scientists depend on atomic clocks to help track the almost imperceptible motions of continents across the surface of the earth and galaxies and stars across...
...imminence of free-market pricing in Russia frightened neighboring republics, which protested that they could not or would not move so fast. If Russia went ahead alone, prices would soar so high that neighbors could not afford to buy the republic's products, including the oil on which they depend. Farms and factories in neighboring republics would sell their products in Russia rather than at home, while masses of Russian shoppers would cross over into other republics to buy at prices lower than in their own stores. Further, Ukraine was planning to introduce its own currency...
...that baby boom is and how long it lasts will depend on what happens to fertility rates during the decade ahead. Jessica Mathews, vice president of the World Resources Institute, illustrates the point neatly: "A young woman today who bears three children instead of the six her mother may have borne will have 27 great-grandchildren instead of 216." If enough women follow that example -- which means, above all, practicing contraception -- the world's population may eventually stabilize at around 10 billion, rather than the 15 billion some demographers predict. A human race twice as numerous...
...Those promises don't depend on me and you," he says, "so I'm real optimistic about the future...
...billion compromise package that could give some of the unemployed new checks by Thanksgiving. The agreement would allow workers to collect up to 20 weeks of extra checks after they have used up their initial 26 weeks of benefits. The duration of the additional benefits will depend mostly on individual states' jobless rates, with recipients in the more severely affected regions getting payments longer. The measure will be financed largely by speeding up collection of estimated taxes from some wealthy taxpayers. That self-financing feature persuaded Bush to support the bill; he had vetoed two previous attempts because they...