Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand why other schools need to poke fun at a school of education even though we're part of the same community." Deal says, adding that "I feel good about what I do, and it's every bit as vital and intellectually respectable as things others...
Last week, 84 issues and more than $11 million in losses later, Sir James admitted there were no vital signs and shut down his hemorrhaging weekly. The flood of ads in the first few issues had slowed to a trickle when the Sunday Times reappeared two months later, and Goldsmith never achieved his initial circulation goal of 250,000. After averaging 182,000 during its first year, Now! slid to 119,000 in recent months. It cut its ad rates by about 30%, but even then, says a London advertising executive, "the rates were too high for the circulation offered...
Under the plan, revenue from the television fee would be used to fund "vital municipal services," which are currently threatened due to the effects of Proposition...
...four who did-and who also learned Virgil's first name, Grainger's nickname and nearly every vital detail about the bank-left the van in a shopping center a mile away. Tucson police and the FBI started with nothing more than vague descriptions and a tip received five days before-not passed along to local banks-that two convicted bank robbers and murderers might have arrived from California...
Each year, thousands of Americans die from fires. In too many of the cases, death occurs because so much skin is burned away that vital body functions are disrupted. Essential fluids ooze out, and natural defenses are too weakened to fight off bacterial infection. To prevent these complications, doctors try to cover burn sites with skin grafts from undamaged portions of the patient's body, but often there is too little skin left and they have to resort to using skin from pigs or cadavers. Being foreign tissue, these grafts are usually rejected in three to 25 days...