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If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features.
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To increase volume, some lenders are turning their attention back to construction companies, which are dependent on bank loans for development projects.
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The development of healthy vision, for example, is dependent on being able to see normally in order to develop the visual cortex.
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The creation of new markets is often dependent on component technologies opening up opportunities, rather than the development of entire supply chains of products.
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Even so, real income per person remained stagnant throughout the 19th century, perhaps because an inadequate education system and an economy dependent on slaves producing commodities for export combined to get in the way of development.
ECONOMIST: Getting it together at last
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This makes the model unduly dependent on foreign aid, a common complaint of Africans about many Western-inspired development projects.
ECONOMIST: African poverty
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And we had to make farming less labor-dependent, so that more of the population could enter non-farming occupations and support economic growth and development.
NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing
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So at moments like these, sacrificing these investments in research and development, in supporting clean energy technologies, that would weaken our energy economy and make us more dependent on oil.
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