Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep calm" moderates were for formally censuring Nye, but not for expelling him: to do so during an election year would be to court defeat. Clem Attlee himself leaned to the moderates' view. Attlee's usual response to Nye Bevan's bull-like forays into vital issues-e.g., Formosa, negotiations with Russia, gibing at the U.S.-is to adopt as much of the Bevanite position as he can, and thereby undercut the Bevanites' appeal. It has led him up some strange alleys...
...Senate, Faure pushed ahead with a headache inherited from Mendès: the vital Paris accords. The Senate has no veto power, but by an unfavorable vote, or even by tacking on an amendment, it can send the accords back to the Assembly for another debate and another vote, a laborious business that might prove lethal. Faure was determined to get the accords approved "without amendment and without delay...
...would know full well that politics today has a part inexorably more important in the lives of men than it had in the first century. In fact, I believe He would say that His kingdom must first be sought in the political field, because that is where . . . the vital things are happening...
...with a polite smile, "is the basic policy of the Japanese government." He also believes that "Soviet intentions toward world domination are still there." Nevertheless, this wealthy and conservative politician is eager to negotiate a peace settlement with the Russians, and is convinced that trade with Communist China is vital to Japan's revival. The statistics suggest otherwise-China accounted for only about 12% of Japan's prewar trade-but the vision whets the desires of many Japanese. "I am convinced that China has no idea of trying to conquer Japan through Communist infiltration and violence," says Premier...
...policy on foreign buying (TIME, Dec. 27), Defense Secretary Wilson will give contracts to foreign low bidders when the difference between the lowest foreign and domestic bids is 6% or more of the foreign bid (instead of 25% as formerly), except in cases where the U.S. firm involved is vital to the public interest...