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Word: vital (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, this doesn't appear likely. Any effective policy would require leadership-a vital ingredient that is totally lacking in this Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...credentials of Stenhouse and Wilhite are remarkably similar. In addition to their high falutin averages, both sluggers spend the winters as playmaking guards on their basketball quintets. Stenhouse was delighted just to earn a berth on Frank McLaughlin's squad, but by the season's end he was a vital cog in the team. Wilhite came off the bench to galvanize the Lions' offense the past two years and scored a career high 27 points against Brown this season...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Couple of Classy Guys | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

Borowitz claimed yesterday that the cancellation of the show was "a case of gross mismanagement." He added. "The board mistakenly thought they could alienate people that were vital to the production. They didn't want a director that was anything more than a puppet to the Society...

Author: By Georgia A. Hill, | Title: Premiere Society Show Closes Because of Personal Conflicts | 4/21/1978 | See Source »

...legal, legislative and corporate efforts are vital to success--but they can only succeed if it becomes increasingly apparent to the parties responsible that the American people demand justice for the working people of our country. We of Harvard-Radcliffe Friends of the United Farmworkers organize consumer delegations to Cambridge area stores to request that they remove Stevens products from their shelves. We have distributed leaflets in Harvard and Central Squares to raise consciousness about the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Farming To the Boycott | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...hardcore right wing, who thought they had a sure-fire issue and promptly started paganda barrage has often made a hash of the facts. Many people have been led to believe that the treaty constitutes some kind of massive giveaway that will leave the esteemed and still vital waterway in the clutches of rapacious crypto-Communists who will thereupon thumb their noses at the helpless giant to their north. Nothing could be further from the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Mythologizing the Panama Canal | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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