Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your correspondents missed one vital point concerning the political aspects of desertification. The peregrinations of the Tuareg in Niger, Mali and Upper Volta and the nomadic Masai in Kenya and Tanzania frighten their respective governments, who would prefer to see them sedentary and hence politically under control. So to keep them in place, we have the permanent pumping stations in the Sahel and the "ranches" of East Africa, destroying irreplaceable elements of the human mosaic and creating new deserts, all in the name of "progress...
...banning orders" under security legislation of the past 15 years, and a few have been detained. But for the most part, the Asians tend to be politically conservative. Their official channel of communication with the government is the 30-member South African Indian Council. But there is no vital political organization that speaks for Asians...
...author of The Honourable Schoolboy manages to skirt both terminals. But even he comes too close for comfort. Can the spy novel continue to grow without losing its value as entertainment? For David Cornwell?John le Carré?George Smiley, it is, in every sense of the word, a vital question for British intelligence.?Stefan Kanfer
...vital adjuster spot was held down by senior John Tuke. A heavy hitter who Jettered as a speciality team player in 1976, he has had to work hard on his pass coverage to earn the starting berth...
...preferred a Bronx cheer to apathy would likewise probably prefer to be remembered as an egotist--that he wasn't--than be forgotten. For with his quirks and bitter sarcasm we inevitably associate his idiosyncratic genius and adventurous spirit--sometimes fatal to the ambitious musician's career, but always vital...