Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortened from seven to five years so that he can be elected at the same time as the National Assembly, 2) the President's role should be more that of an arbitrator than an arbitrary ruler with sole authority over such "private domains" as foreign policy, and 3) vital decisions be taken by the Cabinet "and not by one man alone, no matter how great...
Patricia Cutts who plays Ann gives the weakest performance. Miss Cutt's delivery is so flat that her expressions of sentiment are usually difficult to believe. Of course, Ann's mendacity is a vital part of her character. But so is her apparent sincerity. Her actions, not her delivery, should make her hypocrisy clear. Miss Cutts improves in the third act, though, and her beatific smiles are always disarming...
...everyone who has not taken Rice Paddies (Soc. Sci. 111) Professor Fairbanks' terminology might be a little awe-inspiring; but his analysis of cultural and nationalistic strains in Chinese Communist ideology and politics adds a historical perspective that is vital for understanding Chinese policies...
Math is not only vital in a day of computers, automation, games theory, quality control and linear programming; it is now also a liberal art, a logic for solving social as well as scientific problems. How much more of it Americans might have is suggested in the new Cambridge Report, a manifesto by 25 top U.S. math users and teachers who hammered it out at Harvard. To lift the national logic level and stamp out mathematical illiteracy, these experts argue that sixth-graders can and should attain a competence "well above that of the general population today." For high school...
...Government may well have to make vital decisions about money policy during 1964, but so, on a smaller scale, will millions of consumers and business men. The year's outlook in various sectors of the money market...