Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trust No One. What mainly messed up Rover was a complicated organizational system that has scattered authority about like confetti. Responsibility for Rover was fuzzily divided between the AEC and NASA. Vital component work was assigned, without clear coordination, to private and Government facilities ranging from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Pittsburgh. One key program was held up for four months while an official held a contract on his desk. Said Norris Bradbury, director of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: "We have seen trivial things like the wrong gaskets being used, which contaminate the system. Crud gets in there...
Charles Shuman thinks it is more basic than that. The referendum is so vital, says Shuman, that it could answer-once and for all-the questions he asked his delegates in Atlanta: "Who will run the farms of America? Will it be farmers or political bureaucrats...
...many Roman Catholic clerics at the Second Vatican Council, the most vital arena was not St. Peter's Basilica, where the prelates gathered for discussion, but a room on the third floor of Rome's college for German seminarians. Scores of cardinals and bishops from Germany, France, Africa and Latin America made pilgrimages there for theological advice. Theologians visited to discuss the issues and events of the council with the sad-eyed, soft-spoken man who occupied the room. He was Karl Rahner, 58, whom many eminent Roman Catholic thinkers regard as the most profound and most exciting...
...world's greatest surgeons, who had repeatedly refused to separate Chang and Eng in life, had probably been right. Without X rays or other modern diagnostic aids, they could not be sure of how much of the twins' vital organs projected into their unifying band. But the autopsy disclosed that only a small part of Eng's liver projected into the attachment to his twin. If a bold surgeon had arrived in time after Chang's death, he probably could have saved...
...gratification; a divorce and an affair; a business coup and a business risk. By an unintended irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success. Presisely because Howard Da Silva (Woody's father) is the most vivid human being on stage, and because the success of The Business is vital to him, the audience finds itself rooting very hard for the commercial vindication of Miss Julie Lingerie...