Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its vital importance, the SPS engine was the only major system aboard the spacecraft designed without another complete system to back it. Like other systems, the engine had duplicate parts made to take over if its tanks, valves or propellant lines failed. But space and weight limitations had forced the manufacturer, Aerojet-General Corp., to include only a single combustion chamber, fuel injector and nozzle extension skirt (see illustration). The failure of any of these parts could have meant disaster...
...Vital Interest. So deep are the wells of hate in the Middle East that perhaps no political leader could now withstand the consequences of a compromise settlement to end the mounting hostilities. If that is the case, says Charles Yost, who was named by Nixon two weeks ago to be his U.N. ambassador, "the necessary initiative can only come from outside"-preferably in agreement with Russia and negotiated through the U.N. That would represent a significant departure from U.S. policy, which up to now has been based on the premise that Arabs and Israelis should settle their own affairs. Writing...
...Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left: "The Federation is more a victim of itself than it was of the elections." Last week, seizing on a drastic remedy, the Socialists disbanded their present party. In the spring, they hope to begin the organization of a new and more vital...
...With the vital U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty coming up for renewal in 1970, it seemed increasingly obvious that U.S. concessions to the newly re-elected government of Premier Eisaku Sato might be in order, if only to give Sato a stronger hand in calming the anti-U.S. protesters. Last summer, after the Itazuke crash, both Japanese and U.S. officials began drawing up a list of facilities that might be given up. When a formal Japanese request for a scaling-down of the American presence arrived, the Americans were ready for discussions. The result: last week the U.S. announced...
...stock market. In the past year the economy advanced in the face of all of that, and more. Yet economic Utopia is far from the nation's grasp. This year, the expansion has gone too far, too fast. In fact, there have been excessive increases in three vital areas: wages, prices and Government spending. During 1968, more than in any other year since the early 1950s, the joys of expansion were shaken and weakened by the jolts of inflation...