Word: life-blood
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Libraries, administrators say, are the life-blood of an academic institution. But universities have traditionally had difficulty raising money for them...
While the council sits comfortably on its inflated coffers, the student groups that are the life-blood of this campus are starving. It is time that the council be held accountable for its self-aggrandizing misuse of funds, and put the money where it can do the most good, in the hands of the students. The council finally has leaders that are listening to student concerns. Now it is up to the rest of the council to follow the trend. --The Coalition of Student Leaders for U.C. Reform and concerned supporters: Joshua D. Powe '98, Coalition Organizer; Derrick N.A. Ashong...
...that the Democrats need to reach moderate voters to retake the White House. But even those who support the ideas of the New Mainstream must worry that the result will be two parties with different names but the same face. Political wrangling and policy debates have long been the life-blood of democracies. Losing lively political discourse (always a danger with a two-party system) can only lead to more apathy and lower voter turnouts...
Peretz's political views are part of his life-blood, says Walzer. "His commitment to left liberal politics and Zionist politics is not something separable from the person...
...named Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault); an aging but still engaging Casanova (Marcello Mastroianni); the dry English essayist Thomas Paine (Harvey Keitel); a sumptious Comtesse Sophie de la Borde, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette (Hanna Schygulla); and various peripheral caricatures of the aristocracy. The wit, the life-blood of an era contained in one carriage, offer the potential for a rich entertainment, but the result is an uneven and tedious sequence of quarrels and flirtations, the names and costumes of history failing to conceal the mediocrity of this entertainment. As Casanova admits at one stage...