Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deny the possibility of progress altogether. Even in the face of strong protest and warnings of grave consequences to follow, we have chosen not to prohibit inquiry but to work through democratic procedures to enact laws that prevent knowledge from being used in undesirable ways. This tradition has been vital to our universities and has served our society well through the years...
...government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini left no doubt of how it views the new development. "The Persian Gulfs jugular vein is in our hands," declared Iranian state radio. "Should an attempt be made to use the planes to damage Iran's vital resources, Iran would turn the Strait of Hormuz into a quagmire for the West's imperial objectives." Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Speaker of the Iranian parliament, put it more chillingly. If Tehran bottles up the gulf, he warned, "the West will have a very cold winter...
...charm and wit of the dying young artist but just misses the offhand incandescence that would fit the repeated description of him as a genius. Phillips has acted the part himself, to acclaim, and knows that the character's simultaneous power to seduce and appall an audience is vital to the play's debate...
...Faculty's action can only go so far without the active support of the departments. The Faculty's insistence on integrating women's issues into existing curriculums rather than forming an independent department or degree-granting committee is a legitimate goal. Within this framework, however, department participation is vital since the addition of one scholar clearly cannot go far in bolstering the College's paltry women's studies offerings. Only a few departments--such as Afro-American Studies, which now offers a course on Black women writers--have risen to the call. And, that so few departments bothered...
...create a pre-registration system, said Young, the format of the students record, which holds all the vital information about each student must be changed to fit into the course placement program, which he calls "a monster...