Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vital one, as Harvard's record moved to 7-1-1. The team entered the game with a slightly disappointing 14th-place tie in the national rankings...
...maiming and bloodletting on the current political scene [NATION, Sept. 17] can only weaken the vital processes by which we govern ourselves. How can the candidates ever recover from the personal and public injury they heap upon each other? If we are to survive as a great republic, we must have the best, not the beastliest, from everyone...
...order bugaboo, the exclusionary rule, which requires judges to throw out evidence in a criminal trial that police obtained in violation of the suspect's constitutional rights. The rule is designed to deter police from strong-arm tactics. But its occasional effect is to exclude evidence vital to the prosecution's case, so that a guilty defendant goes free on a "technicality...
...students will square-off in a fictitious dispute drafted by Tyler Professor of Law Laurence H. Tribe '62. The case involves a federal statute that redefines child abuse to include the withholding of vital medical treatment from children with severe birth defects...
...interests just described are merely self-serving. In carrying out its tasks of education and research a university is performing public functions of great importance to society. The freedoms universities seek, like their buildings and endowments, are not private assets but resources essential to the accomplishment of a vital public mission...