Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with their Viet Nam experience, and rightly so. They are less ready to support U.S. military aid or intervention elsewhere. But that does not mean that even the collapse of South Viet Nam would turn Americans so sour on foreign affairs that they would desert their commitments in more vital areas: Europe, the Middle East, Japan and some other parts of Asia. There will be no such desertion, unless the Ford-Kissinger rhetoric convinces the public that each global trouble spot is equally significant, or equally insignificant...
...weak to hold them up. With Onassis' death, the world lost one of its most extraordinary entrepreneurs. However, he left little legacy-no monuments, no great acts of philanthropy, no record of achievement other than a succession of business deals. All that remains is the memory of a vital, tough, self-made millionaire who clearly believed that living well was the best revenge and, more than most mortals, could exact and enact...
Hooray for the Van Dusens' decision to carry out their suicide pact [March 10]. We determine whether another's life should be conceived, why should we not decide upon the termination of our own? Is it really preferable to store away a fund during one's vital years in order to support senility? At the very least, the privilege of self-inflicted death should be easily available to those who choose...
...retire early or consider moving to states where rates are lower. It is also making it increasingly difficult for young physicians to set up practice. In some states where higher rates have been turned down by insurance commissions, insurance companies have announced that they will no longer provide the vital coverage. This week Senator Edward Kennedy, New York Representative James Hastings and other congressional leaders will meet in Washington with medical authorities to consider legislation for what may be one effective way to head off the crisis: federal malpractice insurance...
...nation's largest city. Fortunately, only the first did real damage. Blazing late last month, it destroyed a major switching station in lower Manhattan. Until service can be restored, 170,000 phones in the surrounding area were silenced and some 300,000 New Yorkers were deprived of a vital electronic part of the urban environment...