Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion securities industry hailed the decision. Eugene and Julia McMahon of Yonkers, N.Y., reviled it. In a ruling of vital concern to small investors everywhere, the U.S. Supreme Court last week came out in favor of arbitration over litigation as a means of settling disputes between stockbrokers and their clients...
...along with such a requirement. The outcome of the AWACS debate may depend on who blinks first. Washington is reluctant to jeopardize its ability to help the mujahedin, and Pakistan does not wish to risk a serious breach with the U.S., its main supplier of arms and vital economic...
Democrats begin every call for retreat with the ringing assertion that the Persian Gulf is indeed a vital American interest and the United States will not be run out of the region. But they then set conditions for U.S. action in the gulf that are impossible to meet. The favored technique for doing this is to demand that the United States not act alone. Where are the allies? they complain. After all, it is their oil and not ours that is flowing through the gulf. They should join us in any military action. If they don't act, why should...
Fourth, even if all of the foregoing were not true, the idea that a superpower does not act except in conjunction with allies has become the disease of American foreign policy. Central America is without a doubt a vital American interest, but, we hear, America must not act unless Contadora or the OAS or Costa Rica -- a country with no army -- leads the way. Since it is impossible to imagine that weak countries will go where a superpower fears to tread, this requirement of allied support is a guarantee of American inaction. This is isolationism disguised as multilateralism. It betrays...
...United States is not going to defend its allies and interests in the Persian Gulf, then where? The gulf is the one area declared by the last Democratic President to be such a vital American interest that he pledged -- this is the Carter Doctrine -- American military action, if necessary, to secure the gulf...