Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country. A somewhat sharper but still highly flexible limit was set afterward by Kissinger. He told TIME: "A democracy can engage in clandestine operations only with restraint, and only in circumstances in which it can say to itself in good conscience that this is the only way to achieve vital objectives...
...Bicycle Hotline will pool past theft records from local police departments and future "vital statistics" from theft victims, he said. The Bicycle Workshop will then send out a weekly computerized list of serial numbers, descriptions and places of purchase to local bike shops...
...that Ford's Administration had been irrevocably compromised were exaggerations. Nevertheless, Ford's first major decision raised disturbing questions about his judgment and his leadership capabilities, and called into question his competence. He had apparently needlessly, even recklessly, squandered some of that precious public trust that is so vital to every President. By associating himself so personally with the welfare of his discredited predecessor, he had allowed himself to be tainted by Watergate?a national scandal that the courts, prosecutors and Congress had labored so long and effectively to expose and resolve...
...major and highly successful efforts. His contributions both to education and the field of philanthropy were immense and are readily recounted by those who attempt to carry on his work. President Bok, in a letter to Duncan's son, wrote this week that "As I look ahead at the vital necessity of maintaining private financial support of Harvard and other private institutions, I am tremendously grateful for the pioneering work done by your father in the fund-raising field and for the solid and basic fundamentals that he worked so hard to establish. This represents a contribution to the whole...
...experts, of cour se, were still vital to our story. Moments after the cover was scheduled, New York Correspondent John Tompkins got a call from C. Jackson Grayson Jr., an old friend who had headed Richard Nixon's Price Commission and is now helping to plan President Ford's upcoming economic summit. Says Tompkins, who worked for Grayson while on leave from TIME in 1972: "It was serendipity-my first interview came completely unsolicited." In Washington, National Economics Correspondent John Berry put in a breathless week shuttling among meetings with various Administration advisers and policymakers. "Mine...