Word: dependent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Bringing any sort of big airliner down to a gentle-or safe-landing is a considerable stunt. But heavy, fast, steeply sinking jet planes have made the proposition even trickier. Their pilots cannot make a so-so approach and depend on last-minute power adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably...
...regulate the supply of credit and influence interest rates. Kennedy thinks FRB should also deal in bonds, contends that the "bills only" policy has dropped short-term interest rates far more rapidly than the rates on long-term obligations, thus has given little help to builders and others who depend on long-term loans. (The FRB has been easing money steadily, and last fortnight began for the first time in more than two years to deal in bonds as well as bills.) Kennedy has not gone all-out for "easy money." He has said: "We are also aware that sharp...
Parsons noted that in modern society technical specialization deprives people of a considerable amount of freedom. "It creates dependency--we have to respect technical competence because important desirable effects depend on it." But in return for abandoning our freedom (for example, to treat our own diseases) we obtain some other freedoms, such as the freedom of action which comes from being healthier, he said...
Alone in the Smoke. "Not the fate of two divisions or even of an entire landing force, but the fate of millions of Americans-young and old, military and civilian, city dwellers and farm families-the fate of the public itself might depend on his decision...
...rough brand of rugged individualism to work at Ward, in three years turned a $9,000,000 loss into a $9,000,000 profit. Avery's method was to cut costs, introduce higher-priced lines of merchandise for the mail-order chain, because "We no longer depend on hicks and yokels. We sell more than overalls and manure-proof shoes...