Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have recently returned from an extended residence in Norway. Scandinavian social and political values, I found, offer a vital alternative to American liberalism. Certainly, in matters of sexuality and sexual equality, Scandinavia seems far ahead...
...played in catapulting her into office. "I am not engaging in a popularity contest," she said when asked about Enrile's new hero status among many Filipinos. Retaining the Defense Minister and General Ramos, 57, represents both pluses and minuses for the President. On the one hand, they provide vital links to the 230,000-member armed forces, which she needs to keep order and to fight the Communist insurgents. On the other hand, the duo's long association with Marcos may make them suspect in the eyes of her longtime aides, who are not totally convinced that their eleventh...
Graham, in criticizing the book, emphasized the vital role federal monies have played and must continue to play in educating underprivileged children...
Sometimes, the excitement reaches a climax when the divers, long accustomed to risking vital limbs, climb to the top of the diving tower, jump off, plummet almost three stories, and penetrate the water below at a screaming 30 miles per hour. Completely naked...
...that Mies' example, brilliant in itself, provoked a prolonged architectural adolescence, a period when a stylistic conformism was enforced. To be modern, a building was obliged to wear what Critic Reyner Banham calls the "teenage uniform" of the International Style. That sort of architectural peer pressure is gone. The vital, messy pluralism now prevalent may not make for neat history, but it might produce better cities...