Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since work in the humanities is not as expensive as that in the natural sciences, additional funding is not as vital in that area, Ackerman said...
...Energy Data Administration. This is a pet project of Schlesinger's, a relentless dataphile, who is dismayed about the lack of reliable information on such vital matters as reserves of natural gas and production possibilities of gas and oil. He does not trust industry figures or believe they tell Government enough to make sound policy decisions. In a tactful way, Carter made the same point in his news conference: "I want to increase the surety that the reserve-supply data given us by the oil companies and others are accurate...
...scenery and the costumes, which cost $300,000, are a dazzling plus. But the acting is, surprisingly, no more than competent. Elizabeth Ashley is a vital Cleopatra - half alley cat, half Queen - but more Shakespeare's lady of the Nile than Shaw's. Rex Harrison's Caesar is a burnt-out case who does not seem to remember what it was like to be warm - let alone what it was like to be Caesar. Gerald Clarke
...Hussein was being paid privately had become known, argues the intelligence community, his effectiveness as a moderate would have been undermined; radicals could more easily have discounted his efforts. The Intelligence Oversight Board questioned the payments to Hussein, but Gerald Ford continued them because Henry Kissinger felt they were vital...
...expensively modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The combined load of 293 tons (72 of them in the 122-ft.-long Enterprise] not only rose smoothly ("No tail shake at all," reported 747 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton Jr.) but maneuvered as gracefully as two such ponderous mating birds could. The vital 2-hr. 5-min. test was declared a complete success...