Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indian leftists counter that Gandhi is leaving India's vast numbers of poor people in the lurch. They argue that government resources are being diverted to help the well-off minority, who in turn are frittering away vital funds on luxury goods. Rajni Kothari, a widely respected social scientist, is worried that the middle class is dangerously insensitive to the desperately poor. Says he: "There is a disturbing decline in compassion, in charity, in pity...
...undertook an investigation of those librarians who objected to spying on bookworms of Slavic origin. After all, weren't the librarians dupes of the communist threat, making waves so that the FBI couldn't get vital intelligence from library circulation records...
Peter Sutherland, now chair of the Allied Irish Bank and former Attorney General of Ireland, told three press members at the Kennedy School yesterday that the changes sweeping both halves of Europe were vital for a stable future...
...President Bok and Dean Jewett (the king and first minister) steal the vital power of deciding housing procedures from the masters (the feudal lords of Harvard), the university will inevitably degenerate into the same sort of rancorous discord that plagued eighteenth-century France...
...most made it to work without major problem, despite predictions of commuter gridlock on the first full workday since the earthquake closed crucial freeways and broke a section of the vital Bay Bridge linking San Francisco and Oakland...