Word: depends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chances of winning depend on what you callwinning," Cook says...
Amartya Sen, this year's Nobel prizewinner in economics, has helped give voice to the world's poor. And that is no small matter, for the very lives of the world's poor may depend on having their voices heard. In a lifetime of careful scholarship, Sen has repeatedly returned to a basic theme: even impoverished societies can improve the well-being of their least advantaged members. Societies that attend to the poorest of the poor can save their lives, promote their longevity and increase their opportunities through education and productive work. Societies that neglect the poor, on the other...
...Russia, only the radical Communists and Nationalists present a genuine threat of such a reverse. These groups depend for their legitimacy, like any alarmist political party, on the perception that Russia is threatened by international forces drawing together against her. Nothing more clearly could convey this impression than the invitation by NATO to these three countries to join an alliance designed specifically to oppose Russia...
...should depend on clinical judgment; whether it is clinically useful. But in a public health screening program like this, the doctor should know what to say if the patient tests positive," she said. "We must also consider the fact that people are much more informed about AIDS than ever before...
...Competition for business in the future is going to depend on how much confidence Japanese investors have in these companies," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "That means a comprehensive review of their strategies -- less risk, better decisions and more transparency." Baumohl says that Japanese banks are already losing spooked customers to U.S. outfits such as Citibank. The brokerage houses face similar defections. Maybe they'll be scared straight...