Word: vitale
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...that the Institute, which originally would have included at least some student participation, now has absolutely no provision for undergraduate input. Certain undergraduate aspects of the Institute were once considered an integral part of the Institute. Why are they now non-existent? Student input was at one time considered vital to the Institute. Why does President Bok now consider its value to be "unclear"? These are the questions that are at the base of the conflict and which need to be publicly discussed. Douglas M. Schmidt Rob Gips for the Cabinet of Phillips Brooks House Association
...sacred forest who demand a tribute of shrubbery -something with "a nice layered effect"-before allowing Arthur and his party to pass. That, of course, only brings them closer to such perils as a murderous bunny rabbit who is improbably but effectively charged with defending a cave where a vital clue to the grail's whereabouts is located. Bunnies indeed are much on the Python group's mind. One of the stratagems that the heroes devise to gain access to the French castle is a Trojan rabbit. It does not work out, but then not much else does...
...vital interest in the independence of the countries of North America and the Caribbean, of Western Europe and Japan. Even within the North American citadel, however, we have seen a country "go Communist," Cuba, without lethal consequences to our security...
Within our zone of vital interests, clearly there are some important differences in the character of U.S. commitments and obviously in the attitudes of the other governments. A country may be crucially situated, from the U.S. strategic viewpoint, and it may be thoroughly congenial, i.e., democratic in its ideology, and still not particularly receptive to any sort of leadership from the United States-witness France, or for that matter, Canada...
Bobby Massie is more fortunate than most hemophiliacs. His parents were not wealthy, but they were determined. They swallowed their pride and ran campaigns to collect the blood he needed, pleading with friends, relatives and even strangers for donations of the vital fluid. (The problem, writes Robert, was not in being grateful, but in having to be grateful: "Nobody likes to beg for charity. And begging for blood is just as hard, maybe harder, than begging for money.") They concealed their fears and sent him to school, then hid their hurt when his classmates called him "leather legs" because...