Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy to see that it's still possible for a young man, operating under what remains of the free-enterprise system, to make a success of farming. However, let's not forget that this success is largely built on the increasing concentration of a limited and highly vital resource (land) in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals. Now I'm wondering how soon it will be before moated castles, surrounded by hovels for the serfs, begin to sprout on those precious acres...
Gene splicing is a technique for recombining genetic material in which the tape is DNA, a molecule which codes in a four-letter alphabet for the various proteins which are vital for the, functioning of every cell. Researchers use a chemical scalpel--restriction enzymes--which attack DNA at specific sites, breaking it and exposing two "sticky" ends to which a new piece of DNA--a gene--can be attached...
...police respond to produces an incident card for the computer and a report from the responsible officer. The supervisor for the evening, known as the watch commander, returns to Grays Hall throughout the shift to look over the reports and check for accuracy and the possible ommission of vital facts. He signs the incident cards. The chief will receive the reports the following day, as will the heads of the sub-units in the department...
...Moscow regime to power]. They don't want to contest us on this issue." The Russians, in fact, were suffering more immediately from the oilworkers' strike than the West was. While the Shah's allies worried about the potential future loss of oil exports, a vital pipeline that supplies 10 billion cubic meters per year of Iranian natural gas to military installations and industries in the southern part of the U.S.S.R. was abruptly closed down...
This week, TIME has learned, government forces-including thousands of militiamen redeployed from the Ogaden desert war against Somali insurgents-will try to regain control of a vital highway linking the Red Sea port of Massawa with the provincial capital of Asmara...