Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...student groups are the lifeblood of the campus, and the council wants to do everything it can to facilitate that," says three-term representative Steven Chung...
...year according to council treasurer Jeffrey A. Letalien '02. Which ones do you belong to? It's all-but-inevitable that you participate in at least one of them, even if that only means deleting their e-mails once a week. These student organizations, we are told, are the lifeblood of the campus, without which Harvard would sink into anti-social mediocrity...
...credit is hugely popular in Silicon Valley and among biotechnology and large pharmaceuticals companies. R. and D. is their lifeblood. Such companies depend on a constant flow of new drugs and gadgets. But is it right that they slough off onto taxpayers part of their R.-and-D. tab? It seems a difficult argument to support, given how much money is to be made once a new drug or technology reaches the marketplace...
...verdict and could rule as early as this week. The law requires them to protect the child. But which child, and at what cost to the other? At a hearing last week one judge wondered whether Mary could be viewed as a kind of unjust aggressor, sapping Jodie's lifeblood to the point of killing her, thus entitling Jodie to self-defense. That seems farfetched: it's hard to attribute aggression to a newborn or bestow the self-defense right on a third party like a doctor. The judges appeared last week to be leaning toward the grim conclusion that...
...almost always deliberate attempts to use the media to the advantage of those releasing the information. And that requires that journalists and editors maintain a healthy skepticism of whatever is gleaned from such sources, always assessing the motive for its release. Of course, such sources are the very lifeblood of the profession, but serving the public means that there is a need to filter and question, even when the intimidating notion of "national interest" is brought to bear...