Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unmasking, or "I've got a secret" against "This is their secret." Television reaches its climax in the so-called great debates. For forgotten reasons these debates, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, wander like a traveling road show from city to city. They are vital as a display of contending personalities, but they have degenerated into quiz shows where candidates, stuffed with facts like geese with fat gobbets, try to outdo each other with encyclopedic tidbits-and gain extra points for well-prepared quips...
Split end Moriarty has been a vital link in several of Yale's come-from-behind efforts, coming up with several key receptions, but the junior has only 11 catches on the year...
...Tryon, however have found a more domestic purpose for the scientifically vital fern. In the spring they scan the New England woodlands for fiddlehead ferns, which the couple then eat fresh in soups and salads or freeze to enjoy year round...
...cases are not the only relevant ones. If a bank loses it database of accounts and names it will fail. If a company loses accurate track of its inventory and accounts receivable data is goes out of business. Terrorists can do severe damage to the nation by destroying several vital computers simultaneously. The Italian Department of Motor Vehicles, for example, still isn't sure who holds a drivers license as legal identification in Italy because its central database files were blown up anti government bombers in the late 1970s. A company near San Francisco lost $100,000 last year when...
Some companies go even farther. The Hewlett-Packard site in Loveland is one example, the underground vault constructed in Rhode Island by a consortium of banks to store electronic data during a nuclear war is a another, and the subterranean vault run for AT&T by Vital Records, Inc, in Raritan N.J. is a third. Isn't that comforting; even after a nuclear war, you'll still get your telephone bill...