Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troops at a hamlet called My Lai. In May, North Vietnamese representatives landed in Paris to start talks -- seemingly endless talks -- with U.S. delegate Averell Harriman. In June, the Marines were told to abandon Khe Sanh. The U.S. high command had decided it was no longer a vital outpost...
Allowing Japan to buy into U.S. schools worries some American educators, who fear this would be the ultimate technology transfer. But the deals also provide vital links to Japanese business, a chance for American students and faculty to be exposed to that country's culture, and, not incidentally, a source of revenue for U.S. institutions. "I see it as an opportunity," says George Smith, assistant to the president at Warner Pacific. "There is no question that higher education will be more international in the future...
...avoid hazardous situations like rush-hour traffic and bad weather. Another issue is compassion: depriving many senior citizens of their licenses would amount to robbing them of their independence. "The use of a car is particularly important to older citizens," says Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, 88. "It's a vital link to the outside world...
Most Kremlin watchers in the U.S. believe that Gorbachev is still backed by the Soviet military and security establishments, whose officials realize that perestroika is vital to maintaining their own long-term primacy. But Gorbachev cannot expect to hold on indefinitely without delivering some tangible results from the policy on which he so boldly staked his political future...
...care for two exhausted TreePeople volunteers in Senegal who had fallen ill while planting fruit trees in famine-stricken African countries. "I don't know how many bureaucrats have laughed us off over the years," he muses. "Then one person says, 'Maybe we can help you.' That's vital to voluntarism...