Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration has hired no new officers, and the size of the force has declined by attrition to a point where officers complain that they cannot adequately patrol their beats. The police administration should seriously consider hiring more officers, despite the added expense this might incur. Personal safety is too vital to be sacrificed, either to student carelessness or to an ill-conceived bureaucratic concern for cost-cutting...
Signs of local insistence on excellence?or at least adequacy ?in public education are encouraging, and a necessary correction to the excesses and the pandering of the past decade or two. One facet of the American experiment, of which education has long been a vital part, has been its capacity for correction and renewal. "The tendency of democracies is, in all things to mediocrity," James Fenimore Cooper once pessimistically observed. It is time for the schools to prove him wrong...
...glue that holds the contract together lies in the realization by the reporter that he is dependent on the good will of his source to better serve his readers in the long run. If he violates the contract, he could well end up alienating a vital source. This contract is not legally binding; it is simply an informal pact...
Cowens sees fine-tuning as a vital link in a team's progress towards consistent victory. He says that players don't change their individual style of play from game to game. It's more of a coordinated shift from an entire unit...
...liberal, pro-rent control forces probably will fail to gain five council seats; once again it will be vital that voters return Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci to office. Though questions about his former state job remain unanswered, his re-election is necessary to insure a liberal majority on the council. Vellucci has served as a unique link between the liberals and the more conservative neighborhoods. Though Councilor David Clem has been a great disappointment on rent control and condominium control, he too has been a constructive force on the council and deserves another term...