Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it comes to common measurements, just about all the world has been able to agree on so far is the 60-minute hour and the earth's longitudes and latitudes. The search for standardization, which grows more vital to national industries as the world grows smaller, has been frustrated by interminable discussions about inches v. centimeters, dollars v. pounds, and Fahrenheit degrees v. Celsius. A recent meeting of 35 nations in New Delhi to study standards spent the entire session before agreeing just to standardize the metric screw -a process that will take many years...
Pakistan's entire economy is tightly interwoven with jute, which is second only to cotton as the world's most widely used natural plant fiber. Last week Pakistan's vital jute industry was snarled in a strike of nearly 60,000 workers who are demanding higher wages. Some mills were the scenes of clashes, and others resolutely evicted all workers. The mood was different at the mills of one jute maker, who has retained the good will of his striking workers by continuing to provide them with their regular fringe benefits of inexpensive company housing and rice...
Calvert, Head of the Europe and NATO Branch of the Politico-Military Division under the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, said that the military viewpoint in international affairs is of vital importance, but often no one is able to explain it convincingly to the political policy-makers...
More than any other artist with the exception of Rembrandt, Beckmann uses his painting as a means for confronting himself, for actualizing his awareness of his individual destiny: My way of expressing my Ego is by painting...as a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes...
Reasons can be given for not considering Vorenberg's proposal: Cambridge does not have an acute "problem"; sponsorship may not be vital--or even particularly important--to the Civil Rights Committee's success; and finally, there is already one city committee, the Civic Unity Committee, to handle civil rights problems...