Word: vigor
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...vigor of the European Community's initiative contrasted with the almost surreal serenity of the summit's site in the historic center of Venice. The statesmen were as enchanted with the beguiling city as countless ordinary tourists before them. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went for a brisk ride up the Grand Canal in his motor launch, the Ile de France. Thatcher, still clad in a flowing evening gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt...
After returning from political oblivion last August, he acquired a strong reputation for vigor and rectitude, appointing experts instead of political cronies to a number of difficult government jobs, launching an effective energy conservation program, implementing a tough anti-terrorist law and pushing an ambitious three-year economic program. Now, once again because of terrorism, he was fighting for his political life...
...Florida has been one factor in making blacks there (citizens with deep and painful roots in the American past) feel even more intensely wronged than blacks elsewhere in the nation. Latins argue that the Cubans (450,000 in Dade County alone) have accelerated business development, brought fresh blood and vigor to the area, and thus more jobs. That is true. In fact, the entire logic of immigration rests upon the fact that immigrants are almost always an asset, a new presence, a little bit frightened and often left ingenious. But the Latin renaissance has left blacks in an unhappy third...
...institutions' increasing dependence on the federal government. As Stanford president Richard Lyman explains, Bok has "raised problems we didn't have in the last 15 years," warning--as he did in a recent article--that government "can easily clasp education in a deadly embrace that stifles its education and vigor...
...Ellen Whitcombe's screenplay. With her untamed chestnut mane and snapping blue eyes, Davis is unforgettable as the willful Sybylla. Rarely has an actor brought such a unique vitality and integrity to the screen. In a script without a lot of dialogue, Davis delivers every line with a vigor that imbues her character with a complexity and depth that is not written into the script. She moves as if she were on the stage--no action is taken for granted. Davis ignites her portrayal of Sybylla with an uncompromising zest, a passion for living. Sybylla becomes a firecracker, exploding...