Word: vital
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...gift helps us maintain the high quality of Korean studies at Harvard," said Brandt in the press release. "Many American business people view Korea as a vital hub of economic activity in the Pacific...
Amid the breakdown of normal commercial life, shortages of food, fuel and other vital commodities began to grow acute. What could restore order was beyond anyone's guess, although Berisha's resignation seems to be the indispensable start. The Democratic Party leader has been a lightning rod for public rage since the January collapse of more than a dozen get-rich-quick investment schemes that lost the life savings of somewhere between 50% and 90% of the population. Most Albanians believe that Berisha was in cahoots with the operators who ran the pyramid swindles...
Darren Kilfara's column "Section 12: Chapter 11" (March 10) points out a serious but easily solved problem afflicting not just hockey but all Harvard sports: lack of fan support. There is no doubt that the fans--the "twelfth man"--are vital to a team's victory and overall success. Indeed, the Crimson icemen often play their toughest and most inspired hockey in Cornell's Lynah Rink, feeding off the intensity of the crowd and the atmosphere of the building, even when that crowd is rooting for the enemy. On the other hand, sparse attendance and collective apathy seem...
...This recent incident calls into question the availability of student information to people outside of Dartmouth," the article said under a headline reading "College Gives Any-one Vital Stats...
...Students have been asked not to sit in on meetings," he said. "They have been excluded from vital conversations and presented with decisions long after they've been made...