Word: vital
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...inhabitants of Yap. After the U.S. took over the islands in a military caretakership of the spoils of war, the United Nations in 1947 bequeathed them to the U.S. as a trust territory. Ever since then, the U.S. has been a benign, if a bit abstracted, presence in the vital geopolitical center of the Western Pacific. It is not a duty that the U.S. has performed with any notable enthusiasm, particularly in contrast with Micronesia's previous rulers, the Japanese...
...student-Faculty-Administration committee to consider the issues of campus recruitment, the University's relation to the Vietnam war, and agreed-upon forms of dissent. This proposal, which will be taken up at the next Faculty meeting, could provide a refreshing first step toward the kind of dialogue over vital issues the University says it cherishes...
...third vital area in which immigrants have the most to complain about is housing. Only 11 per cent of the "for rent" advertising does not specifically exclude colored people, and two thirds of those exclude them in practice. "It is virtually impossible to get a furnished flat for a Pakistani or West Indian," one real estate agent admitted. Real estate agents themselves often give fewer addresses to colored customers. Also it is much more difficult for an immigrant to obtain a mortgage, and rates are almost invariably higher. The last alternative, public housing projects (council houses) take a much larger...
Important though such decisions not to review are, the court will soon be doing the more demanding work of actually ruling on vital issues. In announcing which cases it will hear, it indicated the shape of the 1967-68 term. In one case, the court will consider whether the one-man, one-vote doctrine should be extended beyond the states to local governments. The nine Justices will also decide whether the Sixth Amendment guaranteeing a jury trial should include all state misdemeanor cases for the first time...
...view, is not the place. That war, he believes, represents an overdraft on American resources that is disproportionate to the national interest in that part of the world. He fears that the U.S. may find itself "unduly weakened when we need to meet new challenges in other, more vital areas of the world." That said, the general remains curiously unspecific when it comes to suggesting solutions or even alternatives to U.S. policy in Viet...