Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unquestionably, coal and uranium must be the dominant fuels for electricity generation well into the next century," declared Clyde A. Lilly Jr., president of Birmingham, Ala.-based Southern Company Services, Inc. He predicted that electricity would become an ever more vital form of power. "The electric commuter car," he said, "is almost certain to play an important role in the future...
...President felt that this was a matter of vital importance to the people of our country, indeed to the people of the world, so he set forth the general outlines of what was to be proposed. The people had a right to know what we were going to be talking about, and I must say I don't think the fact that the general outlines were set forward in that fashion had any negative or adverse effect on the discussions in any way whatsoever...
...IRISH are a fair people," Samuel Johnson once said; "They never speak well of one another." To the extent that Corry's book ends with the tragedy of the clan's Americanization, its assimilation into a new, and somehow less vital society, perhaps the criticism is valid. For Corry, as another Irishman, can never really condone the family's fall from a state of Gaelic grace, and his book carries with it the insistently remonstrative tone of the well-bred but confidently self-righteous priests and nuns who people it. But still, Corry recognizes that he can't speak...
Buenos Aires one year ago was a city on the edge of anarchy. Almost daily, terrorists of the left and right kidnaped or murdered business executives, military officers and union leaders. Bombs ravaged army barracks, public buildings and vital industries. Under the inept government of Juan Perón 's widow Isabel, inflation in Argentina was galloping at an annual rate of 350%. The Treasury, down to its last foreign reserves, was about to default on its overseas debt. Then, on March 24, in a bloodless, clockwork coup, the military deposed Isabel Peron from the presidency...
Increasing productivity and defeating inflation are clearly vital. It will not be easy for Martinez de Hoz to achieve this without creating massive unemployment and real recession. If that sort of tailspin came with living standards falling and terrorists still active, workers and their Peronist union bosses might be tempted to try something far less passive than trabajo a tristeza...