Word: vital
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controversy. For his is a position of widespread influence. Faculty spokesman, for example, the Dean has a vital in the line of communications between Faculty and administration. And because the Dean controls the Faculty's , he plays a major part in the financial organization of the University. Thus the Dean is in many ways a sort of prime minister to the President; Professor Ford will be acting as Dr. Pusey's right-hand man for internal affairs. In the past, the extent of the authority delegated to the has depended on his personal relation with the President...
...basic aims have not changed much since 1943, but they seem all the more vital today in a post-war America that seems content with Herman Wouk or Anne Morrow Lindbergh as culture, or will sit by quietly as it is told that nuclear radiation is a) dangerous, b) harmless, c) over its head, or d) none of its business...
...neutralist coalition government he wanted by June 15, he would fly back to France-probably for good. Red Prince Souphanouvong remained in the Communist-held north, issuing occasional bulletins to the effect that he would be delighted to join Souvanna's coalition. But the other vital ingredients-pro-Western Prince Boun Oum and right-wing General Phoumi Nosavan-were missing. Continuing their junketing round of Southeast Asian nations in search of money and sympathy, the two arrived at Manila, where they got plenty of sympathy. Neutralism, declared President Diosdado Macapagal, "is the gateway to Communism." He found it incomprehensible...
...measure of Parker's vitality is that last fall its 50-year-old plant was condemned as a firetrap-and last month it proudly opened a handsome new $2,500,000 building on the same North Side site. Vital were the $750 loans by Parker parents, who provide, says Principal Cleveland A. Thomas, "the highest order of parent participation of any school I have ever known." The parents could feel confident of a sound investment. Said Harvard College's Dean John Monro, chief speaker at the dedication of the building: "I have never known a dull...
Establishing a public market for the agency's shares should also help Papert, Koenig, Lois recruit new executives by offering them stock options (which, for tax reasons, are more appealing to high-bracket executives than a straight salary boost). This is a vital consideration on Madison Avenue, where personnel changes are frequent because the only commodity an advertising agency really has to sell is talent. And at least potentially, a public stock offering has other attractions for advertising firms: it could help raise expansion capital and make it easier for an agency to merge into bigness through stock swaps...