Then, suddenly, in 1991, there was no Soviet Union, and although China took up some of the slack, North Koreans discovered that self-reliance meant hunger, cold, and darkness.
Cornel West has praised Emerson for his "dynamic perspective" and for his "prescription for courageous self-reliance by means of nonconformity and inconsistency".
Harold Bloom noted, in an article for The Times, that by "'self-reliance' Emerson meant the recognition of the God within us, rather than the worship of the Christian godhead".
Sole reliance on the mean incubation periods (or mean frequencies) will hide more than is shown, which increases the probability of failed public health interventions.
I do worry that over reliance on technology means these skills are neglected and underdeveloped.
Pollination by insects probably occurred in primitive seed plants, reliance on other means being a relatively recent evolutionary development.
In "Three Tales," the increased reliance on such means raises an obvious question: how can artists who depend on technology be so vehemently critical of it?
BSSCO's reliance on silver means that it may never be cheap enough to deal old-fashioned copper wires a knock-out blow.
And since some of the biggest holders of bank debt are other banks, the heavy reliance on borrowing means that if one institution gets into trouble, its problems can easily cascade through the system, weakening other banks as well.
According to the Global Age Watch Index 2014 the modest nature of social security payments and the high reliance on it means that the US has a higher incidence of elder poverty than most other countries One of the most valued public services available to older Americans is Medicare, a national health insurance system with almost universal coverage.
