Word: vital
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...nine. Still attuned to senatorial psychology (he voted to confirm all seven nominees considered during his Senate years), L.B.J. knows enough to stay away from any unacceptable nominee. But beyond that, there is an ocean of qualities and qualifications to contemplate. The task is all the more vital since he may well determine the future makeup of the entire court...
...team's fourth member senior Cory Seidman, attacks in the mosquito style. There is annoying buzzing somewhere around a vital area, but one is never quite sure where...
Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff's plan to grant tax credits to anyone paying the tuition of a college student is aimed at a genuine problem: a college education is more vital and more costly than ever. But the Ribicoff measure is the wrong way to go about cutting the tuition tab that parents must...
...basic question, whose answer is vital to the poverty war's success, is very much at play in Laredo: how much of a role shall the estabilshed order have in running the program? Laredo is about 90 per cent Mexican-American. It is controlled, as are many South Texas cities, by a coalition of Anglos and Latinos; the latter are often regarded as Tios Tomases (Uncle Toms) by the more dissatisfied Latins. Those who rule Laredo have watched the poverty fight here closely and with some misgivings, fearing political and economic change that could threaten their power...
Because the trustees did the right deed, it is doubly unfortunate that the reasons they gave were wrong. By skirting the draft issue they avoided an increasingly troublesome problem on which Columbia was making some headway--how a university faculty should handle educational policies that have vital political implications...