Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose. From that must flow a strategy for results (Ford has waited for problems, then reacted). There must be shared goals within the organization (Ford has repeatedly attacked the bureaucracy over which he presides and which he needs to carry out his orders). Effective systems of information are vital (there are almost no reliable assessments of how some of the huge Government programs are working...
...State could not get his hosts very far from this single, obsessive topic. Détente turned out to be not just a major point of contention, as Kissinger had anticipated, but a recurring one. As TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reported from Peking, it limited negotiations over such vital items as the future of Korea, the status of Taiwan and preparations for President Ford's first visit to China, scheduled for December. The Chinese feel that last summer's Helsinki summit on European cooperation was the Munich of the '70s-with Brezhnev the Hitler, Kissinger the Chamberlain...
...means in an address to anesthesiologists, he included removal of a respirator "to allow the patient who is already virtually dead to pass away in peace." A few years later, a Church of England study pamphlet said all such life-support machines should have only one purpose: to keep vital organs going until doctors can tell whether the organs can ever again function on their...
FROM THE MOOD-SETTING sinuousness of the prefatory dancer to the audience's final cathartic gasp, No Place to be Somebody captivates. H-R Black C.A.S.T. has established in its short existence a tradition of loose and engaging productions which feed on audience interaction and force spectators into a vital consideration of the black person's experience in America...
...talks in Peking, Kissinger will try to get the Chinese to go along with a multinational effort to secure a permanent Korean peace. Korea, he reasons, is vital to the security of Japan, the economically most powerful nation in Asia. If Korea should go Communist, or be swept by war, Tokyo might well be forced to rearm in a massive way, probably with atomic weapons. Many Japanese officials are as afraid as Kissinger is of the prospect of a remilitarized Japan. They have urged him to make direct approaches to North Korea, if necessary, to guarantee peace on the peninsula...