Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, precious time has unfortunately been lost in the settlement of international problems, which may prove more formidable and vital than ephemeral and passing internal squabbles and disputes...
...wounds of war take time to heal," said an Angolan government spokesman in Luanda last week. "A bit of bad blood is bound to persist." That is quite an understatement. Nearly four months after it won the ferocious civil war for control of Angola, with the vital help of 12,000 Cuban soldiers and $300 million in Soviet military aid, Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is still having trouble consolidating its control over the country, which is roughly twice the size of France. The cities, the Atlantic coastline and most of the central...
...drowns out the importance of conscientiously trying to be good to other people...people who are in there busting ass to be the best and only worried about their own status don't realize that they need other people and that coming across as a decent person is a vital part of medicine...
...revealed 3,955 "problem welds" in the pipeline, which is still only half completed. If Washington decides that the trouble is serious enough to require a major inspection and repair job, it could cost the oil companies as much as $60 million and prevent the opening of the vital project on schedule...
...petty, bullying tyrant over House committee staff members and more menial employees that Hays became most hated. He has used his Administration Committee, which oversees such mundane but vital matters as Congressmen's parking spaces, travel allowances, restaurant service and custodial help, to satisfy his vindictive whims. Annoyed that elevator operators were sitting when he had to stand, he ordered their jump seats removed. Irked at House barbers, he raised haircut prices and banned tipping. Mad at the press, he temporarily refused to sign pay vouchers for some press-gallery employees. Hays gained extra influence as chairman...