Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides the satellite, which will complete a vital communications network, the shuttle is carrying four crippled white rats and 32 chicken eggs among the scientific experiments to be studied during the five-day mission...
Shuttle chief Richard Truly said the success of this mission is "absolutely vital" to NASA's continued recovery from the Challenger accident and the agency's move toward safe, routine, monthly shuttle launches...
...beleaguered nominee for Defense Secretary, the real issue is the motivation of his judges in the Senate, who he implied were hypocrites pursuing the partisan politics of personal pique. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators late in the evening who've had a few drinks . . . ((to)) vote on vital issues of nuclear deterrence?" Tower asked with rhetorical venom. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators to accept honorariums, PAC contributions and paid vacations from special interests...
...great thing about Ivy League football," writes Jeffrey Hart, "was the vital and rich local culture surrounding it. That is why the Death Culture (liberalism) has hated it all along...
Anyway, the "vital and rich culture" that Hart mourns comprises freshmen swilling booze from hip flasks in The Stadium, blind dates with Radcliffe girls (sic) and parties at the Porcellian and Hasty Pudding clubs. Some culture...