Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green-carpeted Cabinet Room of the White House, 21 men sat down one morning last week to consider the most vital aspects of U.S. defense. First to speak at the regular meeting of the National Security Council was the youngest man at the table. Placing his tan leather briefcase beside his chair, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned forward and opened the meeting in a grave, clear voice: "Gentlemen, as we all know, it is the custom of the Cabinet to open with a silent prayer. While this has not been the practice of the Security Council, may I propose...
...hardships of fellow prisoners. Even if prisoners of war are allowed to confess their own "crimes" freely to lessen torture, they must not lighten their burden by betraying fellow prisoners. Each prisoner should be obligated to withstand torture whenever possible to prevent incriminating a fellow prisoner. Also disclosure of vital information, bringing danger to American troops, deserves the full punishment...
...every Congressman knew, the SAGE air defense system was vital to national security-but worthless without communications lines. Thus there seemed little doubt that after the political shouting died, Congress would go ahead and give the contract its approval...
...vital part of the broadening sphere of the Observatory, it now participates in a cooperative plan with five other institutions to share the expense of maintaining an outpost in Bloemfontein, South Africa, one of the prize viewing locations in the Southern Hemisphere.A member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston which maintained the facilities during war, prepares reflector from Pyrex glass...
Invited to come in and help, Scanlon pitched out the old-style incentive system, which promoted individual effort at the expense of the group. He spent days with the finance and accounting people-whose role he considers vital-and devised a productivity norm. In Parker's case, it was the fiscal year March 1953 through February 1954. He then arranged that the savings on output made at less than the costs of the base year figure (as measured by sales value) should go into a bonus pool. A fourth of the pool money was automatically set aside...