Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exception of the economy, voters have viewed the 1976 presidential campaign as essentially an examination of character. Easily lost in the weeks of personality analysis, rhetoric and misadventure have been the candidates' positions on specific subjects of national concern. Here is a comparison of their views on seven vital topics...
When a Russian pilot flew a MiG-25 to northern Japan last month and asked for political asylum in the U.S., CIA Director George Bush hailed the defection as an "intelligence bonanza." According to euphoric Pentagon spokesmen, an examination of the plane and interrogation of the pilot would yield vital secrets about Soviet air-weapons technology. But U.S. experts who were dispatched to Japan for a three-week study of the aircraft have come to a different and surprising conclusion: the much-touted superplane brought to the West by Soviet Air Force 1st Lieut. Viktor Belenko is, in many respects...
...bless the world with an intolerably repressive regime in Chile, prolonged killing in Vietnam, and belated, expedient moves against the white minority government in Rhodesia apparently only to save that of South Africa; an approach to civil rights highlighted by the administration's recent blocking of public school surveys vital to enforcement of civil rights legislation and Ford's inflammatory flirtation with Boston's busing opponents; a tax policy that effectively increases social stratification instead of countering the regressive impact of sales and property taxes; and finally, an environmental policy that brought a veto of the watered down stripmining bill...
...October debate indicates, Dole offers the American people a return to the black days of Nixon and Agnew, to an era of acerbic, divisive diatribes that alienate the young and disadvantaged. Mondale promises instead to be a powerful champion of social justice. The vice-presidential choice is itself vital enough to determine the choice between the Democratic and Republican tickets...
...vital problem of increasing production to feed and support China's ever growing population (around 850 million), the moderates stressed practical approaches, including such "revisionist" devices as higher wages for more work and the notion that each state enterprise should be run efficiently enough to produce a profit. Recognizing the need for high technology in areas like oil production, computers and aircraft, the moderates have not hesitated to buy some goods from foreign countries-a policy the radicals derided as the "worship of things foreign." "In our Socialist state," said one article, "the development of production does not rely...