Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said "an unconfident nation will devote its energies to immediate needs" at the expense of vital basic research...
...been miffed at Ford because the President rarely consulted him. Connally, a Democrat until he switched parties in 1973, recognizes that his chances of becoming President are less than slim, and he speaks enthusiastically about his other activities. He gives speeches around the nation on vital issues. He has a big ranch at Floresville, 180 miles east of Houston, where he raises Santa Gertrudis cattle. As the top man in Houston's largest law firm, he makes international business deals for major U.S. corporations. In Britain last month he met with Cabinet Officers James Callaghan and Anthony Wedgwood Benn...
...specific Frankel propositions, Bailey is a longtime critic of the system he knows how to use so well. "We've got to start putting the emphasis on justice rather than game-playing," he says. One pet Bailey prescription is the use of a lie detector on anyone vital to a trial. Courts continue to be reluctant right up to and including the Hearst trial to admit polygraph results as evidence, because they believe their reliability has not been proved. But, Bailey says, police already commonly use polygraphs in their investigations and "will almost never prosecute a man cleared by their...
...task of constructing a new domestic concensus on foreign policy in place of the Vietnam-shattered doctrine of limited wars, a Persian Gulf may appear as a vital tool. The restoration of that consensus necessitates what Kissinger has aptly termed a "legitimizing principle of social repression": an ideological justification which would ensure the support of the American people and Congress for an aggressive policy abroad. The language of realpolitik offers a poor basis for popular support for a corporate ideology. Hence, modern myths have been a mixture of destiny and demonology: the British "white man's burden" and the French...
TIME neglected the vital matter of fuel reserves. British Airways admits that the plane's fuel reserves are so low as to impair "regularity [and] punctuality of operation, especially to New York and Washington," but says that "if, in order to improve regularity of direct service to New York, holding fuel is increased by 15 minutes," payload will have to be reduced...