Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lukas Foss, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic. "The entire city is talking about it-there are strong comments, pro and con. It is not important what we like or don't like. The question 'Is it art, or isn't it art?' is not as vital as the fact that it is here and we have to know it-this is informative...
...body's cells, is what makes her female. But each X chromosome packs many other chemically coded instructions for the body; if both a woman's Xs remained active throughout life, she would be flooded with a double quota of some blood-clotting factors, enzymes and other vital proteins. Since she is not, something must happen to deactivate one of those X chromosomes...
...complaints in the lower courts. The Justice Department is now arguing suits against Milwaukee and Chicago bank mergers, is expected to file another against a San Francisco bank. It is also watching other mergers that it feels might lessen competition among banks, which it ranks as "perhaps more vital than in any other area...
...international situation is serious but not disastrous. Radio and television reach every citizen of our nation; and when we interrupt regularly scheduled programs with a bulletin, the collective hearts of all our people must miss a few beats until they hear the bulletin. Unless it is a matter of vital importance, aren't we running the risk of crying wolf too many times, with the resultant loss of public confidence...
Speaking for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Warren utterly rejected Singer's "bald proposition." The Constitution, he said, provides for no more and no less than "impartial trial by jury." To its framers, in fact, jury trial was such a vital shield against oppression that some of them regarded it as the only permissible way of determining guilt. Not until 1930 did the Supreme Court rule that defendants can waive jury trial in federal criminal cases but then only with permission of both judge and prosecutor...