Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sending more of their company displays and brainpower. The Department of Commerce hopes to get enough business support so that private companies alone will represent the U.S. at fairs in Western Europe and the Americas. Then the Government can concentrate its tightly budgeted official displays in the most vital cold war arenas-the emergent countries of Asia, Africa and the Communist world. Says Commerce Department Trade Fair Boss Harrison T. McClung: "Private industry itself is the instrument that can most effectively tell the story of free enterprise...
...befits a man whose minions are estimated to have killed between 10 million and 15 million people since 1949, Mao began his revision of Marxist dogma by admitting that murder is a vital tool in the construction of a Communist society. "The total number of those liquidated by our own security forces," he said in a burst of frankness, "is 800,000." But now, he insisted, "we are no longer using methods of terror." Where the Russians went wrong, he implied, was in not recognizing that even after a Communist government has crushed all organized opposition, it may face "internal...
...Great Wall of China. The interstate network will reach into every corner of the U.S.-75% of it over new routes-to link 42 state capitals and 90% of all cities with more than 50,000 population. It will carry a fifth of the nation's traffic, provide vital defense routes in case of war. Total cost of the entire program: $100 billion-nearly 300 times the cost of the Panama Canal. The Government will pay 90% of the federal network, 50% of other roads, by raising gasoline, tire and other excise taxes...
...lone all-out dissenter, criticized the majority opinion in unusually strong language. Government law-enforcement agencies, said he, might as well "close up shop, for the court has opened their files to the criminal and thus afforded him a Roman holiday for rummaging through confidential information as well as vital national secrets...
...standards required for honors candidacy. But why institute independence in the senior year? Discarding hour exams and some essays in the junior year curriculum will not prepare the student for a courseless senior year. Removing grades is not so much the aim as making the study more vital, and grades are a symptom as well as a cause of learning's failure to excite...