Apart from Costa Rica, the economies in the region are heavily dependent on the United States market.
And because Illinois is dependent, like many states, on local property taxes to pay for its schools, wealthy districts spend nearly four times as much per student as the poorest districts.
Its "compensation" will be billions of dollars in American military aid, which will only leave Israel more dependent on the United States than ever, and more beholden to the wishes of the White House and Congress.
Most states are too dependent on revenues from the consumption of goods and from manufacturing firms.
All four of these states are highly dependent on manufacturing and, in particular, the auto industry.
That the United States is uniquely dependent on China, as well, drives the fear even more broadly.
In a world in which such resources are certainly finite, and possibly contracting, they also have the effect of taking them off a global market upon which the United States is increasingly dependent.
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Indeed, scores of developing states ended up economically dependent and worse off as they were collecting abundant aid and loans.
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Over the last couple of years, states have grown more dependent than ever on budget tomfoolery as they have faced record deficits.
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The EU oil embargo, agreed last month, was phased so member states that were relatively dependent on Iranian crude - notably Greece, Spain and Italy - had enough time to find alternative sources.
And today, the United States of America is less dependent on foreign oil than any time in nearly two decades. (Applause.) That's what we've done.
And today, the United States of America is less dependent on foreign oil than at any time in the past two decades. (Applause.) So we need to build on that progress, not go backwards.
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For example, it justifies the retention of Europe's biggest navy, and a plan to construct two giant aircraft-carriers, by stressing Britain's worldwide interests: a trade-oriented economy, with 10m citizens living overseas, 13 dependent territories and close ties to other Commonwealth states.
The same is even more true of the United States' economic power, which is inextricably dependent on space-based systems.
We must not lose sight, however, of the larger problem: The Millennium Bug's potential for devastation of an advanced, computer-dependent society like that of the late 20th Century United States is not confined to its national security apparatuses.
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Regarding the United States, the falling price of oil will make him more dependent on the U.S. market.
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The whole point of the 1996 welfare reform law was to give states broad discretion in revising the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare program.
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We should then block-grant Medicaid back to the states, as we did with the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children program in 1996, reaping similar savings.
The biggest issues in my mind are the lack of willingness in these Northeast States to get natural gas and refined product pipelines built so they are not so dependent upon refined products for heating and they can get refined products delviered without as much trucking or barging.
That effort is a reminder that when all the active-duty, reserve-component, retiree and dependent beneficiaries of the present system are added up, they exceed the margin of victory in many swing states during the 2008 election.
Japan may be more dependent than ever on exports to Asia, particularly China, but Asia in turn counts on exports to the United States.
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