Word: vital
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Another clause in this same bill would prohibit employees from paying dues or giving other support to a union deemed under Communist domination, and would deny any member of such a group employment in a defense plant. Although it is, of course, vital that saboteurs be kept out of industry, a blanket measure of this kind raises more problems than it answers. It would be up to the Subversives Activities Control Board to decide if a union is Communist dominated, and in times of fear, this Board could be pressured into unwise decisions. Also, it would be an easy matter...
...Budget Day approaches, British workers are demanding more wages-and in Britain's tight economy, higher wages mean an increase in export prices at a time when German and Japanese competition is rising. Exports to the vital U.S. market have already dropped as a result of the U.S. downturn. But Butler is cheerful; he likens the British reaction to an old lady on a cruise: "She locks herself up in the cabin and is a little seasick, more out of apprehension than because of rough seas. Then the steward knocks on the door and tells...
Ferocity & Chic. What the painting did have was a vigor to match its huge size. In places it looks as vital as a plunge of lightning-or at least as the stormy "N" of Napoleon's signature. Those who find exhilaration in fast driving at night might well warm to the picture, for it creates a sense of deep black space shot through with gleams, glares, flashes and slow beams of light. The blood-red tangle at the center, brilliantly meshed with the whites, is like a single note of ferocity which saves the whole from coldness...
...paper work slows up vital decisions, such as on rate increases, for months and years. The ICC now has 560 rate cases pending, some of them filed as far back as 1952. Moreover, the commission is so scrupulously fair and long-suffering at its hearings that it will hear all witnesses at any length. As a result, shippers and farm lobbies know that they can filibuster a rate increase merely by bringing in more witnesses. Meanwhile, the railroads' costs have already gone up. Since 1945, the delay in rate cases has cost the railroads more than $500 million...
...increased growth lies ever before the system and must be faced. In opposition to the belief that Harvard must expand to maintain its national character is the argument that the college has a deeper primary obligation to undergraduates to turn out a quality product. The House Plan is a vital link in producing such a product...