"I believe it is in our national interest to have an energy plan -- to have a strategy to get us less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil, " he said.
What is the degree businesses and consumers are dependent on debt just to get by.
Yet unbundling is not sufficient to get broadband going either, since it is dependent on the co-operation of the telecoms incumbent.
Verghese first complaint is that being overly dependent on machines leads patients to get too much radiation from CT scans and also leads physicians to miss things they should have notice.
Portugal, by contrast, is dependent on speedy, thrilling breaks intended to get the ball to its captain as quickly as it can.
But the western companies could not do anything: they were dependent on the goodwill of the Chinese government to get market access.
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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.
Kickstarter (735 music projects) Music-centric funding platforms like Oocto, Pledgemusic and Indiegogo have all helped artists communicate directly with their fan base and get love money for their next project instead of being so dependent on finding a record deal.
It was 100% dependent on parental reports, and that gets harder as the kids get older.
But export-dependent Germany is relying heavily on global trade to pick up in order to get its economy going again.
Mr Edwards said Staffordshire Police had targeted those who are dependent on alcohol by visiting them at home or sending them details about how to get advice to control their addictions.
Most businesses are dependent on the entrepreneur, and if that is you then you really need to get the first two issues handled (saving money and investing in assets that make you money).
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Pfizer was able to get FDA approval for this drug based on a small trial with patients who were shown to have ALK dependent lung cancer.
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This grand intercomparison, which may involve ten or more modelling teams, should allow researchers to get a better grip on what is really happening, and to see which of their results might be dependent on the vagaries of a particular piece of software.
The Midwest, Michigan and Detroit in particular, are still going to be very dependent upon the automotive industry, but there are a lot of industries that are dependent on this industry and we've got to start, I think, making sure we get into those industries.
"What you could measure is the productivity of assets that are left idle for a day - the ship that doesn't get built and so on, " Prof Mayhew adds, with the caveat that the British economy is far less dependent on building things like ships than it was half a century ago.
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