Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the networks had to fight logistics in Chicago that were just as trying as the run-ins with over-zealous patrolmen. A telephone strike, which many media people claimed was sustained to hamper news coverage of the convention, had crippled communications around the city. One vital consequence was that there could be no live coverage of events outside the convention itself. Everything NBC aired had to be video-taped and rushed back to tre network control booth in the amphitheatre...
Every mile has been bitterly contested. Incorporated in 1960 by businessmen in and around Odessa, the Permian Basin petitioned the ICC in 1963 for approval to begin construction. Backers argued that their road would provide vital services for farmers and merchants in lonely West Texas. They argued that the line would show profits in only five years by hauling grain, sugar beets, iron ore, oil, castor beans, peaches, potatoes and cotton to Odessa and Seagraves for transshipment to major markets...
...interesting, too, that Massachusetts' wealthiest Corporation, easily able to afford payment on its own renovations, has accepted this money rather than requesting it be put to a more vital...
...favor. The middle part of the country, II Corps, is quiet. Communist forces have either gone into hiding, drifted further south or slipped across the Cambodian and Laotian borders. Except for a massive, six-battalion attempt by the South Vietnamese last week in Chau Doc province to take a vital Viet Cong stronghold, the fertile and populous Delta area of IV Corps is equally calm...
...administration so thoroughly rebuffed student attempts to share in decision-making power? Because the administration does the University's long-range financial planning and it jealously guards this vital decision-making tool. It is this power of the purse that enables the administration to wield direct control over social matters and indirect control over educational ones...