Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prodding influence, then worked out a gentleman's agreement. They decided that the conferees in each chamber would meet separately and decide what they would offer the other body. As the conferees got down to the touchy differences between House and Senate, they ignored the rules that such vital decisions must be made in public, and went into closed-door sessions...
...State Cyrus Vance served as chairman of the opening sessions. At week's end he left for South Africa, turning over the gavel to Ambassador Alfred ("Roy") Atherton, the President's special emissary in the Middle East. The three partners quickly reached agreement on a mundane but vital procedural issue: instead of breaking up into working groups, each delegation in its entirety would participate in all bilateral or trilateral meetings...
While he wouldn't us the Reggie Jackson-basepath incident in Game 4 as an excuse. Lasorda still ws steaming ovesr the call. The Dodgers claimed Jackson had interfered with a throw on a potential double play and the incident costs them a vital run in their extra-inning loss...
...even before leaving Salisbury, he got an unexpected boost for his cause from an old enemy. Faced with a grave fertilizer shortage that threatened famine and food shortages, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda reluctantly announced that he would reopen his country's border with Rhodesia to permit vital imports and to allow the rail shipment of Zambian copper to ports in South Africa and Mozambique...
...Chinese as an alternative to routes through southern Africa, never became fully operational, because of theft, widespread mismanagement and frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...