Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford drew his best applause with an assault upon the "sensationalized public debate over legitimate intelligence activities," meaning press and congressional inquiries into alleged abuses of CIA authority at home and abroad. He said that he would cooperate in any "responsible" review of the CIA so long as "vital information" was protected, but again charged that the investigation "ties our hands" and threatens to cripple "a vital national institution...
...business with her, when the United Nations sees fit to exclude Israel from UNESCO, when, in other words, the Arabs have used their oil power to perpetuate a calculated scheme to isolate Israel in the world community, one comes to the realization that the U.S. should offer Israel the vital means with which she may insure her survival. Such is the case that U.S. support for Israel coincides with the genuine interests of the U.S. in the Mideast, while at the same time, fulfilling a moral commitment to a nation fighting desperately to protect its very existence...
...Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, developmentalists argue that the entrance of the Third World into the twentieth century can profit America's balance of payments. These men advocate the exportation of Western agricultural methods to the Third World. For these men, the markets of the Third World are as vital to the West as is food aid to the poor nations...
SELDOM IN THE months since the October War has the future in the Middle-East been quite so cloudy. The Kissinger shuttle talks failed because Israel was being asked to give back to Egypt defensive positions in Sinai of the most vital importance, in exchange for "something less than non-belligerency," according to State Department officials. Non-belligerency is actually something less than a peace treaty, and is a concept which Kissinger began floating after the October War to spare Egypt the onus of signing a peace treaty with Israel, and yet create a situation in which both sides would...
...they cannot even stand up, the reason is not that the director finds pratfalls irresistible. Instead, each and every character is a zealot, convinced not only that whatever cause he happens to be serving will change the course of human affairs for the better but that he is absolutely vital to that cause's success. The musketeers (Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay), for example, never stop for a moment to observe - as Lester does - that the French king (Jean Pierre Cassel) for whom they endlessly risk life and limb is a vain and idle popinjay. Their...