Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer 'shmen that competitive edge, here's a crystal ball look at some vital statistics about Harvard's academic departments compiled from a 1985 survey...
Meanwhile, former national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, reportedly the key architect of a policy to seek U.S. contacts with Iran, re-issued a statement he had made in Atlanta earlier in the week, in which he talked of America's "vital security interest in the independence of Iran...
Syria plays such a vital role in Middle East politics, thought, that most European countries were unwilling to rally behind Britain's diplomatic efforts against Damascus. At a meeting early last week of European Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg, Britain tried to enlist the support of its partners. The session, though, quickly became what one British participant called a "small disaster." The other countries made it clear that they wanted to play no part in the campaign for sanctions. Six of the twelve E.C. member nations did not even bother to send their foreign ministers. A British proposal that...
That kind of fast-as-light trading has made immediate information a vital concern. On his morning drive to his office in Manhattan's midtown General ! Motors Building, Howard Stein, chairman of the $35 billion Dreyfus group of mutual funds, stays in minute-by-minute touch with price moves of 72 selected stocks on a QuoTrex sideband FM receiver. The QuoTrex system uses the Security Industry Association's computerized data base, to which all U.S. exchanges report via the Intermarket Trading System...
Something has changed. After 30 years, revolutionary Hungary is now the fattest and freest of all the Soviet satellites. China has discovered the free market. Poland bends to the Roman Catholic Church. Even the Soviet Union is now in the grip of a wave of openness: vital statistics (like infantmortality rates) are being published again; a suppressed antiStalinist film is being released; plane crashes, submarine sinkings and other unsocialist occurrences are being reported...