Word: vital
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...private oil bureaucracies disloyal. During the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo, American oil companies demonstrated they will not put their home country first--they restricted deliveries to the U.S. proportionally more than to other customers. It is simply foolish to leave all control of a commodity vital to our industry and military in the hands of men understandably motivated by profit alone. The traditional conservative concern for national security should be harnessed to support a federal oil company...
Even if some "pro-choice" advocates might concede that abortion is murder, many might argue that under some circumstances inflicting pain on one person in order to lessen the pain of others is the lesser of two evils. In particular, many people feel that the right to abortion is vital to the liberation of women from oppression and the liberation of men from the role of oppressors. But if the women's movement claims to be an alternative to the politics of power and violence, of the strong asserting themselves at the expense of the weak, then it must either...
...delegation under Interior Minister Yosef Burg, a hardliner who was chosen to placate the National Religious Party and other right-wing members of the Likud coalition. The Foreign Minister, as Dayan acidly put it, was left to handle such marginal matters as "cocktails and ceremonies." He had played a vital role in the negotiations that led to the Camp David accords last year, and he reacted angrily to being on the sidelines this time. Even if he had not resigned, Dayan would not have attended last week's meeting in London between Burg, Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil...
...Sullivan, the finances of the city are of vital importance. "It is crucial to have the revenue which the real estate tax brings in," he says. "With rent control we just don't get sufficient income to keep taxes down...
...immediate concern in the nuclear medicine departments of hospitals and research centers across the U.S. Some nuclear power plants can use on-site storage areas for radioactive wastes. But hospitals and universities with limited storage capacity rely on regular pickups by private carters. For them, a wide array of vital tests may now be jeopardized...