Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as he remains in power, the Caribbean will remain in crisis and Cuba will be a staging area for Communist subversion, or outright aggression, throughout Latin America. Long before the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba became apparent, it was obvious that Castro was a threat to vital U.S. interests in the Caribbean. Now the U.S. hopes that economic and political pressures will be enough to topple a discredited Castro-and such look-no-hands methods would certainly be preferable to the use of arms. But if they do not work, then the U.S. will not have advanced nearly...
ONCE the subject of an important and vital debate, the Harvard House may now be turning into a "way of life" in the worst sense: an institution that is insulated against re-evaluation, never subject to adjustment, and wholly inorganic...
...heresy. Reminded by the presiding cardinal that his speech exceeded the ten-minute time limit, Ottaviani sat down. His fellow prelates clapped, applauding the ruling. Outraged and hurt, Ottaviani boycotted council sessions for ten days. Last week the proposal for liturgical reforms, which promise to make the Mass "more vital and informative for the faithful in accordance with present pastoral requirements," passed...
More Pay, Fewer Hours. Behind the slowdown in German growth lie severe shortages of two vital economic ingredients: manpower and money. In a nation where World War II wiped out much of a generation, there are now 562,000 job openings and barely 100,000 unemployed. Capitalizing on this, Germany's long-docile labor unions last year pressured wages and fringe benefits up 13.6% to $1.20 an hour, the highest in the Common Market; simultaneously, they pushed the average work week down to 41.3 hours, lowest in the Market. German executives, who once boasted of their nation...
...four-year chief executive is of little use without an efficient legislature. Thus Peabody's proposals to grant extensive home rule to the cities and towns and to limit the legislative session to six months are vital to effective state government. Under the existing system in which the State administers many purely local functions, the General Court is deluged by a mass of trvial bills at each session. Legislators have neither the time nor the information to make wise decisions on most local problems, and although the General Court must have the authority to curb abuses of local power...