Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neil has been my best friend," Gielen says. "He's someone I can always depend on as a crutch, or as a partner...
...furor over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses-which many say blasphemes the prophet Mohammed and which she eventually banned--has also helped destablized her regime. problem of Afghan refugees and an ensuing drug trade. And Bhutto has said she hopes to depend on U.S. help with these problems...
...gotten a big boulder rolling and we're in motion, but now a lot of what is going to happen will depend on Dean Putnam," Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser says...
Concerns about the bottom line have been getting through to legislators, who know that crime-weary voters are also taxpayers. "I have a real aversion to the idea that justice should depend on some monetary figures," says Illinois legislator Thomas J. Homer, a former prosecutor. "But there is a correlation between getting tough on crime and the revenue of the state...
...traditional right, a vulgar, selfish, money-obsessed society, drained of more humane values. Her prosperity has been selective; the gap between haves and have-nots has increased. She has ignored the environment, allowed the public infrastructure to rot, starved the universities and other worthy institutions and causes that depend on public funds. For all her talk of freedom, she is an authoritarian outside the economic sphere and has shown contempt for civil liberties. The Thatcher boom itself, say some, is a mirage, and they offer statistics to back themselves...