Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the question of racial discrimination in the South African Union. Long before its present intolerant leadership got control of the country, Field Marshal Jan Smuts contended in 1946 that "the question of the U.N.'s right to intervene in the domestic affairs of a member state is vital to the whole concept...
Soviet willingness to buy Egypt's cotton at uneconomic prices gives its salesmen a vital edge. Thus a French firm that was a low bidder on a contract for diesel engines lost out when Hungary promised to accept payment for the job in cotton. All told, cotton shipments account for 90% of Egypt's total exports. This year the Soviet bloc will take well over half of them...
...confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...
Devaluation automatically raised the cost of imports; that was where Lonardi's proposed austerity came in. To smooth the transition and hold down inflation, the government for the time being planned to tax the more profitable exports, e.g., beef, and use the tax to subsidize the more vital imports, e.g., penicillin...
...enterprising hero of Cash McCall finds himself in just the situation he describes, while picking up a small, family-owned plastics outfit called Suffolk Moulding. Suffolk is put on the auction block in a panic by its President Grant Austen when he fears he is about to lose a vital contract. Cash offers Austen $2,000,000, and a handshake clinches the deal. Cash is soon clinching with Grant's lissome daughter Lory in a losing proxy fight for his heart...