Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Using Nicaragua as a base, the Soviets and Cubans can become the dominant power in the crucial corridor between North and South America. Established there, they will be in a position to threaten the Panama Canal, interdict our vital Caribbean sea lanes, and, ultimately, move against Mexico...
...commercial theater, where the only permanent people were the managers and the accountants. I thought the theater should be built around the artists, and I always looked to find my sense of family there." In Providence, Hall gathered an ensemble whose members remained season after season. Their loyalty proved vital during the showdown with the Trinity board, which had grown impatient with his explicitly erotic work, especially an adaptation of the James Purdy novel Eustace Chisholm and the Works that featured a graphic abortion and an unabashed homosexual sensibility. When the board ousted him, the actors boycotted...
...Government not only to test its own workers but to withhold federal contracts from private firms that refuse to do the same. "Drug trafficking is the most serious organized-crime problem in the world today," said the commission, which argued that the Government and private companies can play a vital role in curbing demand for drugs...
...wake of controversial disciplinary proceedings, critics charge that Harvard's interest in those who make this a vital community ends at Byerly Hall. Last week the university could have answered those critics. Knowing that it might call on the CRR when divestment protests heat up this spring, the faculty could have committed itself to bringing Harvard reality into line with Harvard rhetoric. It could have decided to reform--or scrap--the CRR before it limits freedom and attests to the university's hypocrisy. Instead, the faculty balked...
...unlimited debate and endless quorum calls, and that the public would not understand or approve the legislators' arcane customs. "Unlimited debate," said Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, "is not a pretty thing to watch on television . . . It is a messy, untidy spectacle to watch, but I think it is vital to the nation...