Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case of the cluster bomb, it is their ability to pierce armored vehicles, blow up personnel and otherwise alter the battle plans of an enemy brigade on the move that has made them a vital part of American campaigns in Iraq and more recently in Kosovo...
...Bigot," your columnist Jack E. White writes as though he has been granted a special license to hurl hateful epithets that stigmatize good people for life [DIVIDING LINE, Aug. 30]. Indeed, this piece has set us all on a perilous course. Who will have the courage to enter this vital debate? Is a new version of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror upon us--with reputations, rather than heads, falling? D.L. COBURN Dallas...
...Shays-Meehan and McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bills. As of late last night, several dangerous amendments to the House bill had been killed, and the bill appeared to be headed towards passage. As unregulated donations continue to flow into party coffers for the 2000 elections, it is vital that the members of Congress resist the obstructionist tactics of the GOP leadership and prevent the political process from becoming a system of legalized bribery...
...mayor and city acknowledge that higher education is a vital contributing influence to the city of Boston," Grogan said...
Critics will be looking for signs of her influence as the Commander in Chief considers the plight of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig says the live-ammo range there is "an important and irreplaceable site," vital to assuring Navy and Marine combat effectiveness. But after two stray 500-lb. bombs killed a security guard and injured four other civilians last April, the island's 9,300 residents declared that they had had enough. Nowhere have they found more sympathy than in New York, a city that has one-quarter the number of Puerto Ricans that Puerto...