Word: vital
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Like other members of the Black group, Hollis also stresses the organization's importance as a support group for campus Blacks. Education School professor and group co-chairman Charles Willie echoes Hollis' remarks, saving the University must be flexible enough to appreciate the existence of a vital Black community within the larger matrix...
Ozone, a highly unstable union of three oxygen atoms, provides the vital function of absorbing most of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. It is continuously being formed in the stratosphere, when regular oxygen molecules interact with ultraviolet radiation...
...article about the vital role Michael Deaver plays in Reagan's life makes me wonder. Do the American people realize they are voting for Deaver and Nancy to run the country...
...signing of documents, Franz Josef handed over the regency to his popular-and fervently modern-eldest son, Prince Hans Adam, 39. The Swiss-educated Hans, who for years has managed the family fortune, including an extensive art collection and real estate holdings, believes royalty still has a vital role. "The President of the United States is received and heard everywhere even if he has only been in office for a week, or even before that as a presidential candidate," says Hans. "This is not the case with a small country such as we are. Over a long period, a reigning...
Langer's one-page account of the couple's decisive journey to the U.S.S.R. blandly echoes the letters Herbst was writing home at the time. Russians in the street look "vital and alert." The workers' kitchens are "so shining." This was the year of the great famine, a direct result of Stalin's enforced collectivization. Though Herbst may have been shielded from the grislier effects of the mass starvation that cost 6 million peasant lives, she could not have failed to see what other travelers were reporting: hordes of hollow-eyed families begging at every railway...