Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to keep U.S. support, the British were willing to make a number of significant concessions. As Pym informed the House of Commons after returning from New York City, a "vital ingredient of the ideas on which we are working is an early cease-fire and the prompt withdrawal of Argentine forces." That wording differed from previous British demands, which had called for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Argentine forces from the islands before any other discussion could begin. The British also seemed willing to soften their insistence on self-determination for the Falkland Islanders, now saying only...
...House resolution demanding a name change. That, and Snyder's fast, apparently prompted O'Neill, a Catholic, to appeal to the White House-and convinced Reagan, a Protestant, that he needed no more trouble with religious leaders, who are pressing him hard on the far more vital issue of nuclear arms reductions...
FILLER IS THE FOUNDATION of any newspaper All that semi-consequential stuff like Twistagrams, notice columns and "quotes of the day" is vital to keep readers occupied between the real news and the advertising. Without filler, most paper would look like gray and white checkerboards...
...states in which senate elections will be held in November, 1982. "Famous" "witnesses for a nuclear freeze" spout repetitive platitudes throughout a 38-page appendix. The impact of a description of a nuclear holocaust is blunted by 28 pages of number-laden tables that include such vital facts as the number of casualties that Ashtabula, Ohio will endure in a nuclear attack...
...mouth dropped, for example. When I heard one Harvard student rattle off Tom Seaver's vital statistics for the past 12 years How did he know all these obscure numbers. I wondered "I memorized them because he was born on my birthday." he answered...