Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small part of the NORAD team [Jan. 12], I would like to congratulate you on an uncomplicated presentation of a vital complex system. I feel certain that you have done much to tone down the screams of many taxpayers wondering where and how their dollars are being spent in the field of national defense...
...Ammono" chemistry, says the astronomer, is very different from earth's familiar "aquo" chemistry, but there are vital similarities. Both systems produce some well-known compounds, among them the amino acids of which proteins are built. Firsoff is certain that when the first living organisms evolved on earth, the atmosphere above the primeval ocean contained ammonia but no free oxygen. When oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere and ammonia disappeared, life on earth adapted itself to the new conditions. The amino acids that form earth's proteins, says Firsoff, are relics of the prehistoric conditions under which earth life...
...finally yielded to the pressure, announced that they would go to Geneva. At the same time, the U.S. discreetly deposited the $4,000,000 in the Laotian account. But there was no reason to hope that the Geneva meeting would be successful. Phoumi still is holding out for the vital defense and interior ministries that Souvanna demands as his share of the prepared coalition government. And Boun Oum will not be in Geneva long. He must return to Laos by the end of this month to attend the cremation of his mother...
Throne of Blood. Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa's grand, barbaric Japanization of Macbeth is probably the most original and vital attempt ever made to translate Shakespeare to the screen...
...complex innards of VIPS, Northrop's Voice Interruption Priority System, Gina's voice makes instant report then ever something goes wrong. She gets instant attention, while in other planes the buzzers, horns and flashing lights that sig nal the same sort of trouble sometimes go unheeded for vital moments...