Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two leaders got along so well during a meeting at the Pentagon last December that Crowe figured a longer visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...
...blowing. Charges that there were serious lapses in safety, quality control and security have been substantiated in a two-month investigation by a House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee. It also found that in 1986 and 1987 NASA and its contractors may have cut corners in developing and reviewing vital flight computer software in order to keep the shuttle on schedule. Rockwell may not share NASA's improved attitude: the company continues to call such charges "untrue...
...even giving has its problems. Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci irritated his Tokyo hosts last month by calling for increased Japanese aid to nations that he termed vital to "our collective security." Carlucci named * the Philippines as one such country and added Turkey, Portugal, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the list. The appalled Japanese disavowed any ties between aid to the Philippines and American interests. Filipinos, however, scarcely doubt that recent Japanese donations have been partly aimed at inducing Manila to renew the leases on U.S. bases on favorable terms...
...have agreed that substantial debt relief is vital to the resumption of strong growth in the developing world and the creation of viable markets for our exports in the future. Accordingly, we will follow the example of France, which prior to the summit announced that it was canceling one-third of the debt owed to it by the "poorest countries," many of them former French colonies. For developing countries in general, we will forgive at least 20% of the debt owed to our governments. We will work toward a similar cancellation of private bank loans, offering tax incentives so that...
Watkins proposed education initiatives that "are of such vital importance . . . that they must be implemented immediately," including comprehensive health courses in the schools and a program tailored to minority communities that have been hardest hit by AIDS. The chairman also suggested that the Surgeon General act as the Government's principal spokesman in health-care emergencies, with the authority to forge effective public policy speedily. As if to underscore the urgent tone of Watkins' draft report, the San Francisco department of public health and the federal Centers for Disease Control predicted last week, for the first time, that infection with...