Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, I am compelled to protest the article entitled "Autos -Bargain Season" [Aug. 22]. Your reporter has indicted an industry vital to the economic well-being of this country with false and misleading statements that have discredited the vast majority of dealers who are quality merchants and community-minded citizens...
...that constitute the tough outer layer of the reef. Structurally weakened, the remaining skeletons are easily eroded by the ocean's waves. Once the coral barriers are breached, the islands that they surround are no longer protected from the pounding of the open sea. Because the reefs are vital to the spawning and feeding of much undersea life, the process can also destroy fertile fishing grounds almost overnight...
...celebrated with the fuss that surrounds a man of fame. Still, the statistics that Phillips has gathered are convincing enough to impress the Russell Sage Foundation, which is oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional explorations of the vital buoyancy of optimism. Eventually he hopes to establish that anticipating significant events can help people to live longer, a finding that could lead to important changes in the psychological treatment of the elderly and the seriously ill. If further study bears out this hypothesis, Phillips says, it will prove that "dying...
...with the Communists, but they readily admit that all their military indicators are down. Since June 29, weekly American fatalities have held below 200. During the last reporting period, July 20 to 26, 110 Americans died, the lowest toll so far this year. Communist attacks in III Corps, the vital area around Saigon, have dropped from a daily average of 30 in May to 25 in June and 15 in July. The other three corps areas report a similar trend. Nightly shellings of allied bases have diminished. Allied reconnaissance patrols find little or nothing. A running fight last week west...
...must also acknowledge the legitimate fears of the white reaction. Otherwise, feeling threatened, the marginal whites themselves may threaten a society that they feel has betrayed them. It does little good to condemn - and further alienate - pre cisely those working-class whites whose good will and co operation are vital to achieving racial peace and urban progress...