Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report is a good start, with several ideas worth implementing. This will be a long process, but it's vital and long overdue. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, who has rightly focused attention on this issue, and the rest of the committee should keep us informed about the progress being made and remember that centralizing the system is the best way to achieve consistently strong advising for every student...
...years old, is already familiar with the campaign for women. A number of its undergraduate programs begun within the last two decades are proving successful in targeting the needs of female undergraduates at the college. Radcliffe's leadership and participation in the efforts of advancing Harvard women is vital...
While the murder of Matthew Shepard is the most horrendous example of hate crime, hate crime legislation is also vital in the prevention of lesser crimes which have the effect of terrorizing whole group of citizens. Surely spray-painted swastikas and burning crosses are far more pernicious than ordinary vandalism...
...really there. But such stealthiness poses a tactical quandary. It requires absolute radio silence, whereas in today's U.S. military all key forces are bound together by waves of always-flowing electronic data. A U.S. submarine plugged into such "network-centric" warfare would forfeit some of its vital silence, potentially betraying its position to the enemy...
President Clinton's plan embraces the rhetoric of re-inventing government. What it re-invents, however, is excessive federal control over a vital issue that the national authority bungled a long time...