Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear, as Kissinger was ready to say this week, that increased cooperation between the developed and the developing world is essential. The failure to work together is fraught with some very real dangers. For one thing, the producer states possess an enormous potential for disrupting the flow of vital materials to developed countries. Four countries (Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire) control fully 80% of the exportable copper in the world; two (Bolivia and Malaysia) account for 70% of the tin; another four (Jamaica, Guinea, Surinam and Guyana) are responsible for 95% of the bauxite exports. Organized in cartels, these producer...
...index of leading indicators, which foretell the future direction of the economy, was up substantially in July for the fifth straight month. Meanwhile, the Labor Department announced revised figures showing a 5.8% rise during the April-June quarter in productivity in private non-farm sector jobs, which is vital to corporate profits and has been slipping for most of the past two years. Still, not all the signs are sweet, and in fact they are turning sour in one key area: the cost of the money that consumers and companies need to buy the goods and finance the building needed...
...whole thing is painful for men, it's equally painful for women. You may know that some man means well, but he just can't seem to make that vital connection between theory and practice. A few months ago, one of the most sexist men I know turned to me and said that because of the Edelin abortion trial, his eyes had suddenly been opened to all the sexism around him--but apparently he remained blind to his own because as far as I could tell he didn't change a bit. I hadn't really expected...
Women students may again tire of single-sex schools, as they did in the early 1970s. But many feel that their schools have a vital role to play in helping women achieve the self-confidence to push for equality in the outside world. As the Wellesley News has put it: "As long as women are kept off boards of trustees, out of jobs and in hot pants, the world needs a Wellesley College...
...leaking gas mains. Fire fighters quickly scramble into action, but their trucks cannot negotiate torn-up streets. Because of broken water mains, fire hydrants are useless. At least half the city's phones are dead. The rescuers are further hampered by the destruction of medical supplies-including vital blood plasma-and the collapse of half of the Bay Area's hospitals...