Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Together, the students, faculty and workers at Harvard form a community: a community of which we 6400 are the vital center, not just customers of corporate Harvard, dashing off $7000 checks on our way to the library. One senior, who also happened to have been "prepared" at a private school in England, suggested that in every case the administration knows how best to prepare us for our future roles as society's elite. "The student's only responsibility and only right is to accomplish his studies," he said...
...four major airfields the Israelis currently have in the Sinai (see map), Eitam and Etzion are regarded as vital to their national defense. From Etzion, which is located in an area with few flat spaces, Israeli jets can patrol not only the Strait of Tiran but also (with mid-air refueling) Bab el Mandeb at the southern end of the Red Sea. Squadrons at Eitam can guard the southern coast of the Mediterranean and the Sinai as far as the Suez Canal...
...delayed by environmental worries. Fishermen have long sought assurances that the bank, vital to Massachusetts' $500 million-a-year catch, would be protected from even the slightest risks of pollution. Oilmen, who estimate that there may be 180 million to 650 million bbl. of oil and from 1.2 trillion to 4.2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas in the region, sought to calm the fishermen's fears by promising to take proper precautions against leaks and spills. The Interior Department tried to counter objections by reducing the size of the proposed sale from 155 tracts to 128 covering...
...officials insist the program is vital to maintain public confidence in the welfare system's integrity. Promises HEW Secretary Joseph Califano: "We'll do this with delicacy and care," severely limiting access to names of individuals on welfare. HEW Deputy Inspector General Charles Ruff, a former Watergate special prosecutor, acknowledges that search of personnel files can constitute a breach of individual privacy. But, asks Ruff, "is it an unreasonable invasion of privacy? We say that it is not." HEW plans to expand Match to include all federal employees and to help states start their own mini-Match. Under pressure from...
...With few exceptions (notably T.H. White's revisitation of Gulliver's Travels and Nicholas Meyer's further adventures of Sherlock Holmes), sequels of books, written by someone other than the original author, have been shameless ripoffs. Oddly enough, Wuthering Heights is still sufficiently vital to sustain its parasites...