Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prime finding was already a matter of public knowledge, i.e., the U.S.'s first line of defense is its capacity to retaliate, combined with the ability to intercept and detonate an enemy's guided missiles before they can damage the U.S. proper. But beyond that was a vital area where serious exploration has made little if any inroad in public consciousness. Prime question: What can shelters do to protect people in all-out thermonuclear...
...Britain's sally into Suez. France, which considers that the U.S. and British interfered in the Algerian war by sending arms to Tunisia and is angry about it, will demand just the opposite-hands off at least, loyal support at best, on policies which the individual country deems vital to its own interests. The French are also deeply suspicious of the talk of interdependence and "efficient" division of atomic-weapon production; they see a threat of British-U.S. "nuclear dictatorship" over NATO's other members...
...itself squarely on the side of free trade in the coming congressional battle by protectionists to end President Eisenhower's tariff-cutting powers, which are up for renewal next June 30. Rather than revoke the powers, said the council, Congress should extend them "with adequate authority to safeguard vital interests of domestic American industries in line with the national interest...
...college with as much academic proficiency as Harvard, the establishment of a Committee on Regional Studies for the College is certainly justified. The graduate Regional Studies Program and the Russian Research Center provide an admirable base upon which to build. The program would provide a more vital, useful education for a small, interested group of students, many of whom could be of great service to the United States...
...problem of reconnecting the cut ends of large veins and of arteries of all sizes is important in much major surgery and after accidents. It is vital in operations, present and projected, to transplant organs (TIME, Oct. 28). Although clamp's have been tried, they are suitable only in some cases: most vessels still have to be stitched painstakingly with fine thread...