Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would "be a consumer advocate, something like Ralph Nader. He would work outside the political parties to clean up politics because he would sense a feeling of hopelessness within our political life." Not so, says Charles: "I think Robert Treat Paine would see our democracy as still pretty vital." Thomas agrees, noting that "democracy is working, but there is a tremendous lack of people in public life whom one can believe and be inspired by." But, Charles argues, "democracy, with all its countervailing forces, is the best way to prevent abuse. There is no better system around...
Syrians had backed the Christian rightists while Egypt came out apparently on the side of the leftists. Under heavy pressure to reconcile from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose economic assistance is vital to both feuding countries, Egypt and Syria now seemed ready to patch up their differences. The Prime Ministers agreed to stop hostile propaganda against each other, to resume full diplomatic relations, to form a joint commission for working out a strategy toward Israel, and to arrange a summit conference between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syria's Hafez Assad...
Into Law. Why does a sure winner bother to campaign? As one supporter puts it, "The campaign is vital. The candidate learns firsthand the state of the nation. He learns the problems and also the opportunities of development." A relative latecomer to Mexican politics, Lopez Portillo is also believed to be working out the goals of his new administration, which will take over the reins of government on Dec. 1. The son of a Mexico City schoolteacher, López Portillo grew up in what he calls a "typical middle-class family." While attending the National University he became friends...
...Vital Signs. What has caused these welcome changes? Mainly necessity. For 30 years America's downtowns have been at war with their own suburbs, fighting continuously to keep those two vital signs of life-middle-class residents and businesses. Now, for the first time, there are indications that the suburbs are on the defensive. They have attracted so many companies, so many people, that they are beginning to suffer the indignities of traffic jams, smog, escalating taxes and land costs. The crowning insult, and the most discomfiting of all developments: the suburbs now have suburbs of their own. Even...
...poor. Opened late last year, the project has leased one-third of its 2,100 rental units and sold 27 of its luxury apartments-for $18,500, plus $658 a month maintenance. It is too early to tell if this brave new town will prosper. But the concept is vital, and Roosevelt Island is being closely watched by city planners...