Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vital First Step." Delta Ministry officials argue that no reconciliation is possible until the Negroes have the means to take charge of their own destiny. "We are not a conduit between the Negro and the white communities," says Rev. Arthur C. Thomas, director of the ministry. "We are trying to enable the two groups to come together with dignity and respect for one another. What's needed now is the vital first step-building up the Negro community so that the two can come together in this manner...
...given period. To predict how much money U.S. corporations and 65 million individual taxpayers will be paying in taxes, the Treasury feeds a complex series of figures, estimates and hunches into its computers. In recent years it has been able to guess within one-half of 1 % of the vital figure. Not so this year. As the fiscal year ended this week, the Treasury found itself with a puzzling $1.6 billion more than the $47 billion it had estimated it would receive, an unprecedented bonus...
...than 700 government troops and 150 civilians dead v. an estimated 700 Viet Cong. But Saigon's new military leaders seemed ready and willing to keep up the grim ground battle. To buttress their fighting force, 600 U.S. paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were now holding a vital flank of Route 14, at the same time guarding the airstrip at Phuocvinh, a few miles from Bencat and Dongxoai...
...meeting." To Buber, man achieved his authentic existence only in loving encounter with God and his fellow man. He called this relationship I-Thou, in contrast to I-It, where individuals deal with one another as objects. For many Christian thinkers, Buber's personalism was a vital corrective to the existentialist stress on man, and the roster of those who acknowledge their debt to his thinking reads like the honor role of 20th century theology: Tillich, Niebuhr, Maritain, Berdiaev, Barth...
...population for the airline industry to work on in its effort to win more customers. Last week in Washington the industry's marketing executives met to ponder why so many stay earthbound and to figure out new ways to tempt them into the air. The task is vital to the lines: for every additional 1% of the population that they succeed in attracting to flight, they gain $100 million in revenues. This year they are flying more people than ever before-and making more money than ever doing...