Word: vital
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...recent election proved what many have surmised since the beginning of the "peace process" in Madrid three years ago. The Israelis are justifiably weary about giving up vital land areas since the first round of negotiations. What we never knew during the governments of Rabin and Peres was exactly how great the opposition was. The cloak of secrecy was tightened by the lack of any referendum to determine support for their policies. Rabin's senseless assassination might even have been averted if his cabinet had ever had the good sense to assess the true opinion of the average Israeli...
...plane, will build a gigantic metal jigsaw puzzle in a effort to piece together the 747 airliner. They will study such factors as the direction in which particular pieces of the wreckage were bent, and the relative heat damage to different parts of the airliner, which provide vital clues to the precise source and direction of the explosion: a bomb inside the cargo department? an exploding engine? a missile from outside? "These people are so expert in their field that they can reassemble the plane with even the smallest pieces of metal," says Hannifin. Once the pieces are put together...
...Americans were "vital," says Mikhail Margolev, who coordinated the Yeltsin account at Video International. Margolev had worked for five years in two American advertising agencies but freely acknowledges that his methods are still influenced by his earlier tenure as a propaganda specialist for the Soviet Communist Party and as an undercover KGB agent masquerading as a journalist for TASS, the Russian news agency. "The Americans helped teach us Western political-advertising techniques," says Margolev, "and most important, they caused our work to be accepted because they were the only ones really close to Tatiana. She was the key. The others...
...address Marg and kissing his own image in the mirror. Philipe discovers him and orders, "Take off my clothes", which to contemporary ears sounds like a sexual demand. Incredibly, the homoeroticism of this scene was not apparent to the audiences of the sixties, but this coded tension is vital to understanding the vehemence of the two men's emotions for each other...
...Dhahran is to enforce the no-fly zone imposed on southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War. But more generally, America's mission in the Persian Gulf is to protect the flow of oil. The gulf states produce two-thirds of the world's supply, so their stability is vital to the global economy. As the U.S. sees it, the biggest threats to that stability are Iraq and Iran, two powerful countries with ambitions to someday dominate the region. The U.S. policy of keeping both Iraq and Iran in check is known as dual containment...