Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a vital community. Any laundry list of reforms would be outdated almost by the time it could be printed...
...disclosed, was crammed with bronze, tin, glass, gold, quartz, weapons and dozens of amphoras (pottery jugs) containing goods ranging from frankincense to fruit seeds. "It was like a floating supermarket," says Yasar Yildiz, the deputy director of Turkey's Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, which is giving vital support to the INA expedition. "This wreck is more than we could hope for," says Archaeologist Cemal Pulak, Bass's assistant. "It is giving us all % kinds of new information about people's lives in this area in 1400 B.C., what goods they traded and where these goods were coming from...
...closely related metals, which are needed for many explosives and fertilizers and are essential in electronic equipment and the clean-up devices for automobile exhausts. The U.S. could get along for about six months without imports. South Africa has 71% of the world's reserves of manganese, which is vital to the making of batteries, various chemicals, steel and cast iron. U.S. supplies could last nearly two years and non-Communist countries have excess manganese that could fill...
...largest black labor union is the National Union of Mineworkers, whose 150,000 members toil in the vital gold and diamond mines, which provide more than half the country's foreign-exchange earnings. An additional 50 smaller ; black labor groups represent everyone from waiters and metalworkers to supermarket cashiers. Individual unions are grouped into labor federations, the largest of which is COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, with 500,000 members...
...museum is a vital repository not just of artistic highlights like old Kovacs shows but of the broadcast record of major historical events. "Can you imagine having had television cameras on Columbus' ships landing in the New World?" asks Robert Batscha, the museum's enthusiastic president. "It boggles the mind. But 400 years from now people will be able to say, 'Here we are living on Jupiter, and we have this wonderful historic footage of men landing on the moon.' " TV's early programming was preserved only haphazardly, and much of the museum's job has been to locate "lost...