Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understands the needs of the economy, warning those who counsel excessive military buildups that "we can spend ourselves into economic collapse." ¶ He understands the military role in a democratic society: "As difficult as some of our sessions with Congress are, I feel they are vital in preventing excessive and unwise extremism. Here we are subjected to the kind of evaluation only a democracy can give its military. This is the secret of our success, I feel...
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the biggest U.S. brokerage house, has never put out a market letter for its customers. Virtually every other firm puts out at least a weekly or bimonthly letter, considers it as vital to business as a scratch sheet is to a race track. "When a speculator walks into our office," says one big broker, "he wants a copy of the market letter. If we don't have one, he'll march right across the hall to another brokerage office that does...
...commercial fishing. In recent years the pier has also become a symbol of the industry's steady decline. Since World War II, Boston's trawler fleet has dropped from 140 to 79, its once huge force of fishermen to 2,000, its share of the vital groundfish market (e.g., flounder, haddock, cod), which was once 90%, to 45%. Yet last week the Boston fish pier was sprucing up as if it had not a worry in the world. Fresh coats of paint covered the weather-beaten buildings, ramshackle structures were being razed, new signs warned filthy-booted fishermen...
...convincing, and Paolo Stoppa, as a man who wants all the pleasures of suicide without its aftereffects, is superb. Perhaps best of all is little Piero Bilancioni, who sits to his cards with the ancient face of sin itself. Indeed, Director De Sica's imagination is everywhere so vital, his control of it so gracious and exact, that his meaty little street scenes assume a classic form, a flavor rather like Aristophanic ravioli...
...Neumann played a vital part in the wartime atom-bomb project. After the war he continued to advise the Government on high-level scientific problems, including thermonuclear weapons and guided missiles. In 1955 he became a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. His advice was instrumental in convincing the Department of Defense that a high-yield thermonuclear warhead could be made light enough to be carried across an ocean by a ballistic missile of practicable size. This thermonuclear breakthrough now dominates the thinking of the U.S. (and probably of the U.S.S.R.) about strategic warfare...