Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanting to be President too badly. And that may be one of the reasons why none of Kefauver's colleagues in the Senate and so few of the party leaders around the country have endorsed him." Then, citing his chapter and verse, Adlai accused Kefauver of missing vital congressional votes, planting the impression that Estes neglected legislation for electioneering...
...thesis then is still a vital part of liberal education, and should remain central to any honors degree, the problem remains of rewarding the unusually intelligent student who has no desire to spend a good part of his senior year on a narrowly defined project. Seemingly, the reward of getting A's should be enough for those who do not wish to continue in the academic life, and if a grade transcript is not enough for the exceptional, a Phi Beta Kappa key would sufficiently represent to society one's undergraduate achievements. Honors in General Studies, merely as a reward...
Even Frenchmen inured to the back biting and cynical misbehavior of their politicos were shocked last week by a sensational trial in Paris. Eighteen months ago André Baranès, a devious little Tunisian newspaperman and police informer, was arrested for transmitting vital French defense secrets to a Communist newspaper publisher. Baranés claimed he had got the information from two assistants of respected, 50-year-old Jean Mons, secretary general of the Defense Committee (France's rough equivalent of the U.S.'s National Security Council). Last week, as the trial of Mons, Baran...
...evidence. Though the PX thinks bribe-taking is about cleaned up, C.I.D. finds there is null evidence of payoffs around. The big barrier to taking the cases to court is the Swiss banking system. Swiss law forbids disclosure of bank records; thus C.I.D. cannot get its hands on the vital pieces of evidence it needs to get convictions...
...experts charting the U.S. economy, no short-range factor is more vital or volatile than business inventories. Economists estimate that see sawing inventories have been responsible for more than a third of the cyclical changes in U.S. industrial output between 1919 and 1946. Both the 1948-49 and 1953-54 downturns were "inventory recessions." They were caused by the fact that businessmen, worried by slipping sales, cut back their orders-and thus cut production -far more than the actual drop in sales. In the space of a few months during the 1953-54 recession, there was a whopping $7 billion...