Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office trailer, where Patty begins the daily production report. How far behind are we? What time did the actors walk off the set yesterday? How much money are we losing? Who broke what moving scenery? These are the vital questions she must answer...
...cellular machinery, directing it to produce more AIDS viruses. Eventually, overcome by its alien product, the cell swells and dies, releasing a flood of new viruses to attack other cells, including more helper T cells and macrophages. The immune system, deprived of a crucial number of those vital T cells, is unable to direct the fight against infection. A host of opportunistic diseases, normally warded off by a healthy immune system, attacks the body. Gradually weakened by the onslaught, the AIDS victim dies, sometimes in months, but almost always within a few years of the first symptoms. By last week...
...life-threatening hereditary disorders that are caused by a single, known defective gene. Among the illnesses being considered for gene therapy: beta-thalassemia, a severe form of anemia, and three rare disorders caused in each case by a defect in a gene that orders the production of a single, vital protein...
...schools perform a seemingly trivial service in teaching kindergarteners that there are 100 pennies in a dollar and 12 inches in a foot. These lessons are vital, however, because currency and measurement systems are useful only to the extent that they are universal...
...American society is the overwhelming importance of professional athletic competition to the mechanics of daily societal interaction. While many would dismiss such a concern as outside the bounds of traditional and rigorous inquiry I feel that it is precisely for that reason that an investigation of this phenomenon is vital...