Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayor, Reeves was a role model to the city's youth, and "his unwavering support of the public schools, which are over 50 percent minority," was vital, says School Committee member E. Denise Simmons, who is black...
...more sedate Ivy League has also ben a hotbed of protest this past year. After an ethnic studies rally of more than 400 students at Columbia University, 22 students were arrested by police in riot gear after they took over Low Library and Hamilton Hall, the school's most vital academic and administrative buildings, for several days...
...Internet daily to get vital information on treatment," said Kiyoshi Kuromiya, founder and director of the Philadelphia-based organization Critical Path, who is HIV-positive. "This information may make the difference between life and death...
Advocates also argue that legalizing gay unions is a way of getting the spousal benefits--health insurance, pension plans, inheritance rights--that long-term domestic partners deserve. Moreover, Sullivan maintains that marriage will encourage care giving to partners, something especially vital in the age of AIDS...
...without clout in these matters, sporting the worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star? How does a supposedly desperate team of rogue spooks acquire all the exotic, expensive equipment they need to support their complicated activities? I mean, how do you rent a fire truck, vital to the burgling of the aforementioned vault--located at CIA headquarters in Virginia--when you're calling long distance from Prague? Finally, why did director Brian De Palma permit Vanessa Redgrave to act in this movie? She's good and funny as a woman of a certain...