Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsgatherers who rely so often on information from undisclosed and undisclosable sources was a severe one. If a source can no longer rely on his anonymity--and there are contempt citations stiffer than ten days in jail--he is likely to refuse to talk. Unidentified sources are often vital to the coverage of governmental affairs. In an era of bureaucratic hush-hush the anonymous tipster has become a must for responsible reporters. To close his mouth is, in many cases, to deny the public valuable and necessary information...
...part tried to explore the vital issues facing students in Nigeria--and, in a broader sense, the younger generation in a rapidly growing but still underdeveloped country. These issues are different from those in a highly developed area. For in Nigeria the harsh fact of life is the lack of trained African personnel in almost every field--agriculture, commerce, administration, and health. Education must meet this need, but funds to finance it can seldom come from the students or their parents, in a land where per capita income hovers around $60 a year. They must come instead from the government...
...blacklist that steered U.S. businessmen away from 1,800 Latin American Nazi-serving firms, also arranged loans by which Latin Americans could buy out German interests. ¶ While Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs (1944-45), fought for a clause in the United Nations Charter far more vital than he knew; thinking primarily of Latin American relations, he enlisted the aid of Michigan's late, great Senator Arthur Vandenberg, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, in providing for the right of U.N. members to make regional security pacts, thereby laid the groundwork for such postwar defense alliances...
Into this office had come such notables as Actor Raymond Massey, Financier and ex-Diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy and his Senator son John, and choleric Columnist Westbrook Pegler. When Sir Anthony Eden visited the clinic for surgery last year, it was Dr. Jordan who did the vital diagnostic work on which the surgeons' lifesaving decision was based...
...Brooms. For all its blatant oversimplification, The Ugly American (a title that seeks to go beyond and below Graham Greene's The Quiet American) has the great merit of drawing the reader into a vital subject rarely treated by fiction. And this Book of the Month Club selection does illustrate the fact that no nation in history has ever faced the problems the U.S. encounters. Like proconsuls of General Napier's type, U.S. officials are held responsible for the welfare of millions, are expected to attend to their wants and hopes, from plumbing to higher education. But, unlike...