Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...becoming one of the most beloved presidents in recent memory, Ronald Reagan has doubled the national debt, savaged vital social welfare programs, overseen the most massive peace-time arms build up in this nation's history, and made the U.S. a net borrower nation for the first time this century...
...never told why this truth must be so urgently revealed, why it could not rest quietly with the dead. Because the necessity Montross's reincarnation is thus called into question, the film's entire premise crumbles. The subject of reincarnation begins to seem more like fanciful ornamentation than a vital compelling force in the plot...
...correspondents and executives from Time Inc. for a 17-day tour of China, Viet Nam, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong. Time planned the expedition in the spirit of its nine previous Newstours: to give each of its guests a journalist's-eye view of a vital part of the world. Since the first Newstour in 1963, Time groups have been to 37 countries, but never the People's Republic of China. This initial visit occurred at a propitious time: China has introduced sweeping economic reforms that place greater emphasis on free-market forces. Time's guest...
...defending the bargain, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schatzow told reporters that it was vital to U.S. security for the Government to be able to debrief John Walker and that Walker could not be forced to talk against his will. "We need to know what is broken and what must be fixed," Schatzow said. Although the bargain had been approved by Attorney General Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Navy Secretary John Lehman attacked the deal. John and Michael Walker had committed "the gravest of all possible crimes," charged Lehman. Not giving them the maximum possible sentence, he added, sends...
...recent deaths of Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto Eco, Fredric Jameson and Julia Kristeva. The result is a surprisingly accessible sourcebook on the fallout of postmodern self-expressionism that tries to rescue semiotics from exclusive appropriation by French aesthete-intellectuals and present its current practice as an applied science for decoding the loaded meanings...