Word: vital
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Weed's goal was fitting for a Crimson team that has relied heavily on the play of its freshmen, with the graduation of several seniors last year. Weed, Yenne, and freshman forward Beth Totman have been vital to the Crimson attack, creating many scoring chances both in Saturday's game and throughout the season...
...response to a question regarding U.S. intervention in East Timor [WORLD, Sept. 13], Defense Secretary William Cohen had the nerve to proclaim that "the U.S. cannot be and should not be viewed as the policeman of the world" and that the new hot spot is not in the "vital interest" of the U.S. This from the man who only months ago was advancing the Clinton policy that we all had a moral obligation to help the Kosovar Albanians against the oppressive Serbian regime. Perhaps U.S. motivations were not so humanitarian as claimed. ROBERT C. MULLINS Geneva...
...able to draw, disproportionately, the most talented people to the University for many reasons, but one of them is unquestionably the fact that from Harvard Square to Copley Square...we are fortunate to be surrounded by a vital and robust urban environment," Rudenstine said...
...federal spending caps enacted by Congress during the 1997 budget agreement, which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even in a boom economy with a government surplus, many vital programs will have to be cut for the spending caps to hold. Although the spending caps are likely to be exceeded, a long and bitter debate will certainly come first, as programs jockey for funding...
...this post-Vietnam age, most Americans are wary of sending troops overseas. But Buchanan's opposition is sweeping. He is, of course, outraged by Clinton's Kosovo policies ("We have no vital interest in that blood-soaked peninsula..."). But he also attacks the Persian Gulf War, waged by Republican President Bush and backed by 80% of Americans. And the moral quandary of whether, as the world's only superpower, the U.S. has a duty to stop genocide is for Buchanan a no-brainer: unless vital interests like oil are involved, we should mind our own business and let those marked...