Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kraft program claims that the best way to help transportation in the greater metropolitan area is to alleviate the congestion in the core of the city. To this end, they proposed improving the circulation patterns on city streets, enforcing and modifying traffic laws, controlling or monitoring entry ramps on vital expressways, installing a modern-day signal control system, and providing more off-street parking in the city...
What about the other Republican possibilities? New York's Governor Rockefeller finally rammed a liquor-law reform bill through his state legislature. Since the vital votes came from the Bronx machine headed by aging Democratic Boss Charles Buckley, the victory was hardly one to enhance Rocky's G.O.P. prestige. After the vote he sighed: "Now I'm free to return to the national scene." He left almost immediately for Oregon...
...tide of most men's lives begins to turn after 75 years. And though their vital energies are not yet sapped, three men who reached that mark last week could be pardoned if they paused for a moment to consider their own three quarters of a century...
...that all the little boys and, more especially, all the little girls get the infection. It is consistently so mild an inconvenience that for children of both sexes it is best to have it and get it over with; one bout generally confers lifelong immunity. There is just one vital precaution. No infected child should be allowed anywhere near a woman who is-or even may be-in the first three months of pregnancy; if she has escaped the disease in childhood, the virus may cause blindness or crippling heart defects in the fetus...
...price of steel is a vital factor in the economy of every industrialized nation, and few nations have kept a closer watch on that price than the U.S. Whenever steelmen even talk about raising prices, a storm rises over official Washington. Congress has investigated almost every steel price rise since Robert Taft led an angry probe into one of the first postwar hikes in 1948, and federal authorities have long grumbled that steel prices seem to have little regard for the law of supply and demand. Last week a federal grand jury made that charge official by indicting the nation...