Word: vital
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This is not to minimize the activism and significance of dissidents in these countries--the dissident movements throughout Eastern Europe are both vital and growing. But somehow--except perhaps in Czechoslovakia, where the state seems to be the dissident force not the "dissidents"--politics, or more accurately, ideology didn't seem to matter a great deal to people. It is in this sense that the American perspective on Eastern Europe seems most distorted...
...steps with Freddie Lynn like the first two mustangs out of the canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane Red Sox junkie would shake his or her head, order up another stiff one, and forget about it--think about the Baltimore Orioles and other more immediate...
Which took me back. I embraced Washington passionately for two months this summer; the strip mine veto, Stanley Hathaway, the monthly unemployment figures, the New Hampshire election, you name them, they were all incredibly vital to me. I read incessantly, argued loudly, reasoned occasionally, all hectically. Then I went home, and put my mind out to pasture. But here was my grandmother, who thought I was an expert on these political things because I always agreed with her at the dining room table while all the aunts and uncles were grinning and clucking about how silly an old lady...
Cratsley, who is also a special justice in Roxbury Municipal Court, said he hopes that "the field work will make a vital input into the learning process," adding that the district courts are "another aspect of our judicial system which deserve examination...
...that Harvard is totally uninterested in or irresponsible about distributing what can become vital information. There is a little booklet in every student's registration packet detailing all the facilities of UHS and devoting half of page 17 to what sort of help a student wanting an abortion can expect from Harvard. And all freshmen are given a copy of A Student Guide to Sex on Campus that has a pretty complete explanation about what an abortion is, and exactly what it entails. But the book was written by a group at Yale and obviously contains little in-depth information...