Word: vital
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During World War II, a factory churned out acetate, vital to weapons production, and wood alcohol. "We always had chicken pies out on the Fourth of July," Rosenstraus says, but the tradition "stopped because people...
During World War II, a factory churned out acetate, vital to weapons production, and wood alcohol. "We always had chicken pies out on the Fourth of July," Rosenstraus says, but the tradition "stopped because people...
...Republican lawmakers who concocted the shameful version of reform that became law last week, Wilson sees both sides of the welfare dilemma. He has no quarrel with the need to do away with welfare as we knew it by moving recipients to jobs. Indeed, he considers it vital to arrest the long slide of the ghetto poor into dependence and pathology. But Wilson asks a simple question for which Clinton and the Republicans have so far provided only the vaguest of answers: Where are these jobs going to come from? He raised the question again in a memorandum that...
...around him with the stature to tell him what to do, when to straighten up, when to stick to the script no matter what? Maintaining a strict posture on his message and delicately balancing competing agendas are the essential first and second positions of presidential ballet. And it is vital to have a merciless coach or two. Ronald Reagan had them. So did George Bush. And as his campaign gathers speed, so does Bill Clinton...
...years, it becomes a barrier to decision making, a barrier to intimacy. It becomes a barrier to everything. Piercing that armor is very, very difficult. I don't know anyone who has done it. He has no close circle of friends. And in this place, friends are vital." When he was auditioning Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the most important partnership in the world, Ridge nailed the compulsory exercises. "Ridge was good," said a Dole aide. "He left Dole alone...