Word: depending
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Most people have at least one person on whom they can depend no matter what happens. There are slight tensions inherent in close friendship, but diehard loyalty will always bring that person running when they’re needed. Or will...
...past several years, Turner has tried to tone down his strutting style, seemingly in the hope of gaining acceptance among Wall Street's buttoned-down moneymen. He realized that his success in any takeover battle will depend on winning the confidence of institutional investors like pension funds, which hold more than 60% of CBS stock. Nonetheless, the drawling Southerner remains largely an outsider. When he went shopping for an investment banker for the CBS deal, he was reportedly turned down first by Drexel Burnham Lambert and then by Shearson Lehman. Finally he reached a deal with E.F. Hutton, a relatively...
Whatever that show's fate, Broadway ticket buyers will have to depend a while longer on such holdovers as A Chorus Line, which opened in 1975, 42nd Street (1980), Dreamgirls (1981), Cats (1982), La Cage aux Folles (1983), and last year's The Tap Dance Kid and Sunday in the Park with George...
...rock 'n' roll, which needs urgency, immediacy, volume and balance. Movies and videos can heighten rock performances. Movies are seen in an enclosed environment, usually with better sound than comes from the tinny tiny speaker of a typical TV. Videos are at home on television, but they, like film, depend on editing to duplicate and convey the raw power of the music. About all a television director can do is cut back and forth between cameras. The medium does not catch the excitement of a performance, it just secondhands it along...
...refrain from coverage that could boost terrorists' morale. In an obvious reference to last month's televised news conferences and interviews with American hostages in Beirut, Thatcher observed, "We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend...