Word: vital
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Given the Administration's indifference to this kind of statistical research, it's no surprise that the realities of working families have been overlooked these past eight years. If the current presidential candidates expect to attend to the needs of the average American family, it's all the more vital that they know, and pay attention to, where families really...
...become virtually mandatory for presidential contenders. John McCain was the rare candidate who vehemently opposed ethanol as an outrageous agribusiness boondoggle, which is why he skipped Iowa in 2000. But McCain learned his lesson in time for this year's caucuses. By 2006 he was calling ethanol a "vital alternative energy source...
...also the question of the hour. If the violence continues to intensify and the Iraqi government cannot finish what it started then the U.S. must choose whether to throw its troops into the fight. If that happens then the seven-month cease-fire, which was vital to the dramatic drop in violence late last year, will truly be over and a new round of bloodletting may be about to begin...
...Unkind Cut Cesareans are not without drawbacks however, and they begin the moment the last stitches are made in the stupefied patient's lower belly. The WHO recommends that babies be breastfed within an hour of birth, because vital antibodies and protective proteins - in effect, the baby's first immunizations - are delivered through those precious early drops of milk. But, as Dr. Atwood points out, breastfeeding "is difficult to do if you are coming out of anesthesia. That's a serious issue." Some women remain groggy for hours...
...over again. Republicans still assume that force--or at least the credible threat of it--is all that regimes like Iran's understand. But you don't hear many conservatives echoing the grand Wilsonianism of Bush's Second Inaugural, in which he claimed that "America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." The fastest-growing species on the foreign-policy right is what National Review editor Rich Lowry calls "to hell with them" hawks: conservatives who don't care how non-Americans run their societies as long as they don't threaten us in the process...