Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kwasniewski, 41, a minister in the last communist Polish government, defeated the old Solidarity war-horse in a runoff presidential election. Kwasniewski's Social Democratic Party, created from the remnants of communism in 1990, already leads a governing coalition in the parliament, and the President-elect will play a vital role in the creation of a constitution to guide Poland into the next century. "He is the Moses of the Polish left," declared Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, Kwasniewski's campaign spokesman. "He guided it over the stormy seas of politics to a new reality...
...leader of the Crimson defense, she comes up with vital plays game after game...
...approaches to intervention, suggesting that the world might have a right to take action against a government that was committing atrocities or genocide against its own people. But experiments in collective security so far have simply proved the old rule: the U.S. will act when it sees that its vital interests are at stake--as in the gulf--but feels no compulsion to send in the Marines without a very good reason. The public demanded a pullout from Somalia but said nothing about abandoning overflights in Iraq when two U.S. helicopters were mistakenly shot down in April...
...Americans rejected intervention in Somalia because their vital interests were not at stake, will they accept intervention in Bosnia? One way to persuade them to go along with the deployment, of course, is to argue that America's vital interests are at stake in Bosnia. The Administration has tried that approach, with limited success. Clinton has another alternative, which is to acknowledge that the fate of Bosnia is not crucial to the national security of the U.S., but add that we still have an interest in peace and stability there, and that our interest merits the loss of some troops...
...Senate plan fails to match. The committee has already promised Texas an additional $5 billion over seven years, but the state's other Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, wants more. Unless an extra $158 million is allotted (which would equal the House sum), Hutchison says, she will vote against the vital reconciliation bill. "I really don't get it," says Gramm, peering over his gold-rimmed aviator glasses, his Muppet-like head bobbing plaintively, "but this is the be-all and end-all for Kay. I don't care about this Medicaid thing myself but I'm being made to look...