Word: vital
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...greater efforts to eradicate syphilis and other diseases that lead to genital ulcerations, and more education about safe sex and the dangers of drug abuse. With AIDS, there will be no quick fixes or startling innovations, just the desperate, backbreaking efforts required to persuade people to make small but vital changes that may save their lives...
Norsigian argued that male politicians should not control legislation on issues of vital importance to women, such as advertising by tobacco companies, expensive medical technology, health coverage, childbirth, funding breast cancer research, and contraception...
...course, the comeback remains vulnerable to a downturn of the U.S. economy. After 64 months of growth in the gross national product, the longest peacetime expansion in U.S. history has reached old age, and economists are checking its vital signs. Last week the Government reported that the index of leading economic indicators, a barometer of future economic performance, fell .6% in January. But economists were encouraged by the Government's revision of the December index, which changed from a .2% drop to a .3% increase. Moreover, the unemployment rate fell from 5.8% in January to 5.7% in February, the lowest...
...events seem to have thrust the issue upon his attention -- with a vengeance. He devoted a lengthy passage to the subject in his 1987 book Perestroika, vowing "not to shun this or other problems which may crop up." By last month he was calling nationalism the "most fundamental, vital issue of our society." And in the wake of last week's violence, he had to realize that it was becoming one of the greatest challenges to his own leadership...
Dudley affiliates may feel that their house is unappreciated, but the non-resident house plays a vital role in keeping the College's budget in the black. The 12 residential houses can only accommodate a fixed number of students. However, Harvard's operating budget requires the College to enroll approximately 400 more tuition-paying "student equivalents" than it has beds in the residential houses. The system works because the extra students have traditionally chosen to live off-campus and affiliate with Dudley...