Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be able to give every spot on earth a navigational fix, accurate to the quarter mile, every 90 minutes. Any ship with a whip antenna, a low-cost computer and a receiver will profit from Transit - and that includes missile-bearing submarines, to which navigational accuracy is utterly vital for finding their targets...
...theory that God is essentially the search for God-may appeal to humanists and troubled skeptics, will antagonize the religious. Philosophically, the Greek writer's twin deities were Bergson (with whom he studied) and Nietzsche. From Bergson he borrowed the idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra-ecstatic, apocalyptic, hortatory, an exclamation-marked salute...
...Vital Negotiations. "We handed Khrushchev the crowbar and sledge hammer to wreck this meeting," said he, in an angry speech in Chicago. "Without our series of blunders, Mr. Khrushchev would not have the pretext for making his impossible demand and his wild charges." Stevenson suggested that the Democrats could best negotiate with the Russians. "The Administration has acutely embarrassed our allies and endangered our bases," said he. "They have helped make successful negotiations with the Russians-negotiations that are vital to our survival-impossible so long as they are in power. We cannot sweep this whole sorry mess under...
...Undergraduate Admissions David Dudley lined up 3,000 applications for 670 places. His staff first ranked each boy on the sole basis of two aptitude scores. Some were clearly admissible on this basis, some not. The problem: 800 middle-group applicants for 400 places. From then on, intangibles were vital. The chief gauge: "Finding the kid who looks stronger on incentive, who has a real motive." Recalls Dudley: "We moved around the table, shuffling papers. We moved more and more slowly." It took two days to eliminate 50 of 200 candidates for 150 places. "We have to look for every...
...Africa is an adman's dream. These people are curious, keen, vital; they love to laugh, they love the visual approach, and they're wild about education...