Word: vital
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Harry Wu was born Wu Hongda Feb. 8, 1937 in Shanghai. He attended the Beijing College of Geology and belonged to the young, vital intellectual movement of the '50s and spoke out against communism...
China plays a vital role in the world economy. Jiang rules over more than one billion people. China possesses nuclear capabilities. For these reasons, discourse and negotiation between America and China are necessary. However, given the obvious and justified controversy that must surround a visit from the president of a country with a human rights record as poor as China's, and given the early stage of negotiations, discussion must stay in the public, governmental arena...
While I would never claim that standard American English is the best language, I will claim that knowledge of English is vital to achieving financial and work-related success in America. Universities are best able to educate students who speak it, and those who have mastered it are better able to compete in the American job market than those who have not. While America may be in the process of becoming a more diverse nation, English is still by far the most economically viable language...
...rally at all is sure to help Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa sleep a little easier with his determination to uphold the former colony's ailing currency pegged to the U.S. dollar. This was vital for property and banking interests ? which means, as TIME Asia correspondent John Colmley says, "people have been prepared to take the hit for the currency peg. If that were to go, you'll see them jumping out of windows all over town...
...radio and kept meticulous notes so she could recount the game exactly to her father when he came home from work. He did not tell her for many years about the box scores in the newspaper, so she assumed her role as the household Dodgers record-keeper was absolutely vital. Even after she discovered the sports pages and after the games began to be televised, Goodwin held fast to her score books: thus, a historian was born...