Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That would shrink up to $720 million from a budget already shriveled by a decline in tax revenues from oil companies. It would still leave the legislature with an unhappy choice: extend the 3% sales tax that Roemer's new measures would have replaced or accept severe cutbacks in vital government services...
American television manufacturers were the first to fall. Then Japanese firms rolled through markets ranging from autos to semiconductors. Now many Washington politicians fear that U.S. plans to develop the FSX fighter jet with Japan could give Tokyo a vital jump start in the aerospace industry, one of the few high-technology fields in which American companies still dominate. The growing outcry has transformed the proposed jet, an advanced version of the F-16, into a powerful symbol of the rising tensions between two countries that are close military and diplomatic allies but also archrivals for the economic leadership...
...education any less vital than these programs? In fact, it seems more fundamental to the state's well-being, since a skilled workforce generates the tax revenue that makes the other programs possible in the first place...
...cannot afford to jeopardize our ability to operate in the forward-most ocean areas of U.S. national interest," the lawmaker wrote. "Until the SSN-21 is commissioned in the mid-90s, continuation of the improved SSN-688 program remains vital to our national security...
Internationally known for his pioneering work on meteors and comets, Whipple took the post--on condition that the SAO relocate to Cambridge. So vital was Whipple considered to the Smithsonian that the SAO complied and joined HCO in Cambridge that year, while it maintained a separate administration...