Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something vital about one-to-one confrontations in sports. The subtle tension involved when Nolan Ryan challenges Reggie Jackson with a high, hard one, when Gus Johnson challenges Dave DeBusschere with a baseline drive, when Roscoe Tanner challenges Jimmy Connors with his big serve, is the kind of thing that makes athletic competition great...
...enabled the country to halve the inflation rate to a still unacceptable 13% last summer before it rebounded to its present 16.6%. On July 31, Phase 2 expires. Unless the government can persuade the workers to go along with another year of restraint in Phase 3, Britain's vital gains will be shattered by a new spiral of inflation...
...believe that the school is out of touch with the best people, and the best work that is being done in the four disciplines. We urge that restrictions on professional activities not be permitted to cut Harvard off from the faculty it needs to maintain a vital curriculum...
...apparent reference to an on-going debate about what type of faculty the GSD should seek, the panel urged that "restrictions on professional activities not be permitted to cut Harvard off from the faculty it needs to maintain a vital curriculum...
...increasing prospect of a disastrous drought had ramifications far beyond the West. It raised once again basic questions of how the nation should use one of its most vital resources, just how much population growth the available water can sustain. As the U.S. faced what scientists termed the most serious drought conditions anywhere on the globe, a world perennially short of food might not be able to look to America to ease its hunger. Domestic food prices seemed certain to increase, job layoffs could follow as water-and hydroelectric-hungry industries are forced to reduce their operations. Added...