Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a vital distinction between the two concepts. Peter S. Hyndman, Progressive Conservative Student Federation
...annual farm-program battle-so vital to farmers, so incomprehensible to everyone else-will be fought this year not on the Hill but on the hustings. President Kennedy made that plain in a remarkably unambitious agricultural message to Congress: in general, he asked for hold-the-line legislation to continue programs already in effect. Under those programs, the taxpayers' 1962 investment in farm surpluses reached $7.7 billion. This was an increase of a mere $95 million over the previous year, a pretty good record in the scandalous history of U.S. farm programs...
According to McCormack, neither Harvard nor M.I.T. played a direct part in soliciting the center, but he stated, "The fact that Harvard and M.I.T. are in Boston is a basic reason why the government decided, to put its eggs in this basket." A vital bargaining point of State political leaders on recent business hunting forays to Washington was the pool of scientific talent represented by Harvard and M.I.T...
...preservation of the prerogatives of people of a sovereign state, their right to deal exclusively with domestic problems and the absolute and unqualified denial of a totalitarian state in the United States--these principles are just as vital as, and more intimately affect, the welfare of every man, woman, and child in America than even such important questions as foreign policy and all other serious questions which we face today, important as those issues are. May God forbid that your respective states and mine, our counties, our cities, our farms, and our businesses shall ever be subject to Washington bureaucratic...
...state received definite and positive assurances that this fundamental concept of government was recognized by the Constitution Is this principle of states' rights as archaic doctrine, as insisted by those who seek the concentration of power in Washington? I say to you that it is a living principle, as vital and essential today as it was in the foundation days of the Republic--the doctrine of free society and free men, as opposed to regimentation of thought and action...