Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applaud your unbiased report on Charles de Gaulle's resignation [May 2], which is a vital moment in European history. First, we should thank him because in spite of obstacles, dangers and pressures he knew the right thing to do at the time it had to be done. In this way, an extraordinary man, a remarkable politician of great maturity retired into a past chapter of French history, and a new page is opening...
Eurodollars create a mixture of benefits and headaches. On the plus side, they provide a vital source of private capital to finance world trade and the growth of international corporations. They bankroll oil exploration, highway construction and even occasional European government deficits. Without them, Europe would lack the investment capital to sustain its present Dace of economic growth. The Eurodollar pool has also become a leading haven for nervous money. Fearful of devaluation, individual speculators and treasurers of large corporations swap comparatively weak currencies like British pounds or French francs for Eurodollars...
...education" system, since only 30 per cent of its high school graduates even went to college. Using the jargon of the early sixties, it said that schools in "culturally-deprived" areas needed special help, since the "culturally-deprived" homes in Cleveland's ghettoes were "not able to do their vital part" in educating children...
...stability. Actually, the wire services earlier made the same error in reporting a press conference here. Probably it's my own fault for not enunciating more clearly. The word I actually used was civility, which is much more important for universities today than stability. Civility becomes increasingly vital if university people-faculty, students and administration-are to discuss instead of demand, reason rather than shout, mutually respect rather than mutually recriminate, depend on ideas for persuasion rather than four-letter words, and confer with rather than confront each other...
...public credit Nixon with "inspiring confidence personally in the White House." L.B.J.'s last reading was 33%. Nixon has not, as Communications Director Herb Klein claimed last week, "calmed the waters of America," but the President has set a new tone in much of the country, a vital ingredient if Nixon is ever to focus and release national energies...