Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...otherwise build up around the equator. Preventing these storms, they warn, could drastically alter the earth's atmosphere and climate, possibly for the worse. Others fear that altering weather patterns over one region of the globe could result in the disruption of rainfall and damage or even destroy vital crops elsewhere...
...years were equally bleak: the promise of no new taxes was broken with a delayed but major tax increase, a severe slashing of such social welfare appropriations as those providing eyeglasses for the elderly and cost of living increases for welfare recipients; and an austerity budget that restricted many vital and popular programs. The budget cuts were a major reason why such fervent Dukakis supporters as Sisitsky and State Representative Barney Frant '63 became disenchanted, often bitter critics of Dukakis...
...mildly entangled couple walking through Cambridge Common said that red was the most vital aspect of the occasion because it represented "passion, divine love, and was of great sexual significance...
This time, luck ran out at thousands of factories, small plants and even schools that depend on a vital energy source: natural gas. Pointing to rising consumption of the clean-burning fuel, as well as dwindling supplies, gas-industry experts had been forecasting severe shortages for several winters, only to have mild weather make it appear that they had been crying wolf. But this season, the early warnings had been sounded as far back as November-and suddenly they proved all too accurate. "The past four or five winters have been comparatively warm," said Carl Suchocki of the Natural...
...execution site is a closely guarded secret. Even the five-man firing squad will not know the location until shortly before the event. Afterward, according to the plan, a hearse will transport Gilmore's bullet-ridden body to a Salt Lake City medical center; he requested that his vital organs be donated to science...