Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights of members of the University are not fundamentally different from those of other members of society. The University, however, has a special autonomy and reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital par its existence. All members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by an appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure, and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice...
...weeks, and particularly since last Thursday, the President has managed in fact to demonstrate that no sentiment could be more misguided. He has shown us the danger of such forgetting, for it is impossible to forget what one never knew, never understood, never grasped. He has only underscored the vital need for remembrance--accurate remembrance...
...relays her statements less heavy-handedly in a song like "The Undiscovered Son," a comic and lonely fantasy about being the unknown child of various famous and pseudo-famous people. As Eddie, Jay Winthrop sings well and does a fine job of fusing the hope and resiliency so vital to a runaway's survival...
...personal computer threatens the Kremlin's tight control over what the Soviet people see and read. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "The Russians can't easily accommodate computer technology because it gives too many people too much information." Secrecy is so vital to the Soviet system that printing presses or even photocopying machines are unavailable to the average citizen. Since personal computers attached to printers can function as high-speed presses, the Kremlin is unlikely to allow them to become commonplace in Soviet homes...
...claim that he "won the war" but that Congress lacked the will to honor its commitments and so "lost the peace," Nixon contends that his Vietnamization program was a success both in the hamlets and on the battlefield. His assertion that a pro-Western Viet Nam represented a vital U.S. security interest relies less on inherent economic or geopolitical advantages than on the domino theory: he points to Hanoi's present control of Cambodia and Laos and its steady pressure on Thailand. He acknowledges that the cease-fire agreement, which authorized tens of thousands of enemy soldiers to remain...