Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were no complaints from the Panamanians-and none, of course, from Fairfield General's receivers. Under longstanding law, the plane, worth perhaps $3.5 million, can now be legally sold to satisfy debts, no matter how it reached the U.S. Judge Kimmelman happily accepted a small red bag containing vital engine parts from Eisenhauer last week...
...while the technicians strive for that goal. The oil companies, said John K. McKinley, president of Texaco, have "to do the job of supplying the country with some 78% of its total energy in the form of oil and gas." Even more important, Americans must apply themselves to the vital task of cutting demand by conserving energy...
...design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino and Calima - shared, whatever their differences of society and religion, a superb instinct for the vital shape. Whether the object is a heart-shaped Calima pectoral with a fierce mask glaring from the center of its luxuriant curves, or a Muisca votive figure whose torso is compressed and flattened into a long triangular wedge of gold, or the magnificent Tairona pectoral with its three fierce birds' heads...
...blatantness of Pirsig's borrowings, his Americanizing of Aristotle and the Zen archer will appear vulgar to some readers. To me the borrowings are signs of a vital writer, maybe a myth-maker. The "good mechanic" resonates in my own experience; he brings to mind a good friend, a mechanic and scientist...
Whatever happens, the auto case points up the toothlessness of the price-restraint agreements that Dunlop negotiated with 16 other industries while the Administration was dismantling controls bit by bit over the past nine months. The industries include some of the most vital in the economy: retail trade, fertilizer, coal, aluminum and petrochemicals. Under present law, the COLC, second party in all the agreements, will die on June 30, and the Senate last week voted down a proposal to continue it as a watchdog agency. Result: there will be no unit left even to monitor the agreements...