Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disease detectives' " difficult task is vital for preventing spread and recurrence. It does not save the victims already struck, who died from lack of oxygen because their lungs filled up with fluid and blood. Many of these victims and others with similar problems do not receive the best modern medicine can offer because of our failure to organize health-care delivery...
...safety of "white" Johannesburg, employers declared that the boycott had been largely ineffective. No vital services had been disrupted, and only about a third of the Soweto work force had stayed home for all three days. Some employers considered docking the pay of absentees, but others urged their colleagues not to retaliate in any way. "A money-earning black is a happy black," counseled one executive. "Deprive him of livelihood, and you lose a potential ally when the crunch comes...
...American Symphony Orchestra in New York and moved once and for all to his native England. "I spend my days studying the scores of the great masters," he says. "Except when I am sleeping, I am thinking of the next time I must conduct great music." Any number of vital, energetic albums have resulted-notably last fall's wondrous version of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") with the London Symphony Orchestra...
With 31 Soviet divisions on the German border, Bonn is understandably concerned with security. Here, the vital German-American relationship has changed in style but not in substance. Both Brandt and Schmidt have pursued policies more independent from Washington than either Adenauer or Erhard. For example, harsh words were exchanged between Bonn and Washington during the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. On the one had, Brandt was irritated by Washington's failure to consult its Allies during the conflict; on the other hand, Washington criticized West European refusal to provide the American airlift with logistical support. Washington added that developments...
...morning in 1932, Robert Denoël, partner in a small Paris publishing house, found on his desk an anonymously delivered brown paper parcel. The 500-plus-page manuscript it contained proved to be quite possibly the most vital -and certainly the most controversial -French novel since Proust's Remembrance of Things Past...