Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extent that...there are opportunities and resources in place, but there was not a machinery to make sure the methods and resources were utilized properly, the Verba Report does fill in the vital missing link," Bok said...
...first half of the lecture Deutsch focused on the characteristics of the Chicana village before significant Anglo influence. Deutsch described a society in which Hispanic women were a highly visible and vital part of the village. They owned property, worked in agriculture and strongly influenced education and religion...
...Templars' scheme if they put a secret map under Foucault's pendulum, a device invented by the 19th century physicist Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault to measure the earth's rotation. The pendulum, which still stands in Paris today, will supposedly indicate a site at which the earth's vital currents can be controlled, earthquakes can be created...
Education is vital in a modern economy. Industries relying on cheap, unskilled labor are rapidly leaving this country for Asia and South America. The United States' economic future lies in the high technology and information industries which demand a skilled and literate population. Education, or human capital, will increasingly become the key to our nation's economic competitiveness...
Judge Gesell could rule that many secret papers are not vital to North's defense. But even then, North and Sullivan would not necessarily lose. Constant interruptions by the prosecutors could confuse the jurors, and repeated refusals to allow secret documents into evidence could anger them. Says Professor Rothstein: "Whenever jurors . . . feel that a substantial amount of information is being kept from them, they are reluctant to find the defendant guilty. The more it can be made obvious that information is being shut off by the Government, the more Brendan Sullivan can claim, 'Ladies and gentlemen, they are putting blinders...