Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what was. There was not a word about Grenada, invaded by American forces almost precisely a year earlier. And the only mention of the Middle East, apart from Lebanon, came when Reagan included it with Central America and "the Pacific Basin" in a list of areas of vital concern to the U.S. One reason, no doubt, is that the candidates do not have time to reel off all the answers they have rehearsed to the questions that no one asks; they concentrate on making what they regard as their most essential points...
...curious instrument of democracy, the presidential campaign debate: "In this world of sin and woe," it is the worst of all possible systems, except for any alternative that has yet been tried. Sunday night Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale provided occasional valuable indications about how they would handle the vital foreign policy and defense issues that the nation will face in the next four years, but they did so only sporadically and, it sometimes seemed, unintentionally. The debate, like the entire campaign, encouraged generalizations, evasions, safe (as opposed to responsive) answers, rote excerpts from stump speeches and, too often, cheap...
Perhaps a third of last month's production decline resulted from the one-week strike at General Motors. Though that dispute was settled, a walkout last week by GM's Canadian workers poses a new threat. Because vital parts of several GM cars are made in Canada, the strike could lead to a shutdown of some of the company's U.S. factories...
...Depression. Scholars chastised Roosevelt for the deficit spending of his Administration, but the national debt he created proved to be trivial compared to its benefits to most Americans, Reagan, too, has become an accomplished Keynesian president. The spectacular recent performance of the economy shows that deficit spending remains a vital economic tool...
...provides a vital function to the nation's advancement of science, but it may be pushing itself too far if it becomes a foundation supporting industry. This is not to say that industry should be left hanging while basic research scoops up all the support. Instead, a new agency to handle the rapidly expanding technology boom is necessary. Moreover, because of the growing importance of technology research, if the NSI hopes to support both basic research and technology, it appears as though basic research may take a back seat...