Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Winning your first tournament game is absolutely vital," Harvard coach Steve Locker said. "We learned so much in this game. I think it makes a better team than we were coming in. Today, fighting the way we did puts us in good shape...
...series of allusions and suggestions geared at strutting his or her intellectual feathers. In this class however, the professor was met by the unimaginable--silence first, and then the apprehensive raising of a hand or two. Was there no one here who felt that his ideas were positively vital to the evolution of an educated discussion of the subject matter? Was there no one who felt that she could enlighten us all in the glow of her magnificent mind? The English department is a part of Harvard University...
Bowles' appointment--and the manner in which it was made--is the clearest ideological statement about Clinton's second term since his election-night promise to govern from "the vital center." Clinton has turned over the most important job in the White House to a pro-business centrist who pushed hard for a balanced budget, advocated cutting a deal with Republicans and was an internal ally of the liberals' pariah, the consultant Dick Morris. If there were any doubts left, they disappeared when liberal-in-chief Harold Ickes read in the papers about how he was being passed over...
...Clinton reserved judgment. "I don't think we know enough yet," he concluded, "to say that the mission won't be needed." He ordered the Pentagon to continue preparations but delayed giving a deployment order. Relief workers on the scene still insist that an armed force is vital to get food and medicine through, arguing that even if all the occupants of Mugunga were on the road home, up to 500,000 who would require help remain in Zaire--though no one has a reliable head count. "Doubts are beginning to form," says an Administration official. "The U.S. will have...
...that God keeps his promises, even though people often do not. Throughout history God has shown that he can use ordinary folks and even some truly unsavory types to accomplish his purposes. I call that good news. AMY T. KERNS Columbus, Ohio Genesis answers some of the most vital questions every person asks at some point in his life: Who am I? Where do I come from? Why is there so much evil and suffering in the world? Is there any purpose to life? Science, with all its factual trappings, has failed miserably to answer these crucial questions. RAJENDRA PILLAI...