Word: dependent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kekkonnen is in a precarious position. His people like the Americans and tend to call the Russians "smelly barbarians," but, as he puts it, "Relations with the West depend on how she handles relations with the East." The West, he says, tends to regard loans from Rusisa as treason, but without them Finland will not survive. When Finnish ties with the West grow stronger, as they did last fall, Russia exerts economic pressure...
...irrigated land. The rest will be divided among his tenant farmers. Though owners will be in part compensated in government bonds, those holding feudal jagirs-the gifts of the Mogul kings to their favored warriors-will not. Eventually, as Ayub knows, the lasting benefits of his rule will depend on how well he carries out land reform...
...election could be held a year after his appointment of monitors had vanished by last December when he told the Brotherhood not to hold its convention in January, and that it would have to get permission from the court before scheduling an election. Prospects for the future seem to depend on some form of more active federal intervention, not only in the International, but in the Conferences and the locals as well...
...quality is produced in college or in some other manner. As a result, you must wait until the public notices that your alumni become rich and famous--usually a half century after you have raised the quality of education. Only a college which views its mission as eternal can depend upon such a large delayed reaction...
...Anybody close to the Program believes that the goal will certainly be achieved," Pratt continued. "The only question is whether it will be achieved on schedule This will depend on how successful we are in securing these few very large gifts...