Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rise, with criminals stealing credit-card and Social Security numbers to rack up $750 million in charges in 1997, the General Accounting Office reported last week. The House and Senate are working on bills to stamp out the crime. In the meantime, check your credit report and disclose vital statistics only if absolutely necessary...
...showed up with rock musicians behind him, and the booing didn't let up until his great songs like Desolation Row and Like a Rolling Stone pierced the consciousness of a whole new generation, making everyone realize that rock music could be as direct, as personal and as vital as a novel or a poem. That popular music could be expression as well as recreation...
...Brando culture was vital and restlessly innovative, but it carried the seeds of its own boredom. Revolutionary pop was too speedily accepted, turned into mainstream mulch and, in a trice, its own parody. Artists with any hope of staying power were forced to reinvent themselves a la Madonna. And her triumph was not any singing style, or even a winking decadence, but simply the prolonging of her career...
...talent and versatility are McLaughlin'sobvious assets, his heart and commitment to thegame he loves are the less highlighted, yetequally vital, traits that make Tommy Mac theincredible athlete and individual that he is. Oneneed only examine his journey from MLS draft dayto the day he signed four months later tounderstand...
...college to provide education and support for females not allowed to attend an all-male Harvard. Now that Harvard College is fully coeducational and coresidential (and has been for more than 20 years), Radcliffe College is little more than a name. But Radcliffe as an institution is vital and necessary for the University community and the larger world...