Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These tactics are all part of a new diplomatic offensive aimed at isolating the U.S.S.R., wooing the Third World and cementing economic ties with Western industrialized nations that can supply vital technology. Abandoning Mao's doctrine of national self-reliance, Peking's leaders this year have concluded an unprecedented trade deal with the European Community and a $20 billion pact with
...Israeli Prime Minister [July 3] shows only that the former freedom fighter and first cit izen of Israel can't be controlled by his so-called allies. Begin has never been any man's puppet. His dream of an Eretz Yisrael is his life, and on the vital issue of peace and security for his people, there will be no dictation of policy from non-Israeli sources...
...probably should have been anticipated that the practitioners of such a vital art form would finally do what they did last week and proclaim several days before Jimmy Carter left for Germany that the Bonn economic summit was, in effect, over-and it was a washout. From the White House, which last week issued a new official portrait that it hoped would look more "presidential" than last year's photo, came willing explanations for the predestined disappointmen-Congress refused to support Carter, the American economy chose the wrong season to inflate, the New York Times-CBS thoughtlessly polled...
...tendency of physicians to regard it as a urological condition in men rather than a venereal disease affecting both sexes. Consequently, because women's symptoms are not obvious and because little effort has been made to trace and treat the female sexual partners of male victims (a vital element in venereal disease control), the disease Ping Pongs through the population. But progress is being made. Says Dr. McCormack: "Five years ago, neither men nor women were being treated appropriately. Now it's mainly the women...
There the official line is that no dispute exists and everyone derives happiness from working together harmoniously to create the new order. This means the dis orders, the sorrows (and the private visions and fancies individuals indulge in as compensation) - the raw materials of a vital art - are banned as irrelevancies. Artists, if they are to continue to function publicly, must either embrace the gaseous platitudes of revolution or bury themselves in popular, native tradition. Chinese ballet, for instance, was hobbled when authorities decided to erase any Russian influences. Folk singing and dancing seem to be much safer areas...