Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arguing that the pipelines are of vital strategic use to Russia, NATO's trade advisory committee last week tried to put an end to the pipe trade. Weeks ago, Italy, which had sent Russia 180,000 tons of pipe, went along with NATO's new ban, canceled a 60,000-ton shipment. Japan canceled negotiations for 20,000 tons...
...only defense is peace. We must find a way of safeguarding our vital interests that will not lead to nuclear conflagration. There must be concessions on both sides...
...years since have seen a narrowing in differences of opinion about the nature of the U.S. economy. The old chicken-egg argument about the relative priority of demand and investment is still around. But liberals have shown a growing tendency to recognize the vital economic importance of investment and of the factors that investment depends upon?profits, savings, individual incentive. Along with this shift has come an awareness that burdensome taxes act as a brake upon economic growth. Businessmen have long maintained that the upper-bracket tax rates are economically pernicious, but it is a refreshing novelty when the A.F.L...
...soul of a businessman, and is so uninteresting a figure as to be tiresome even as a figure of fun; while the bad painter, Gully Jimson, of The Horse's Mouth has the soul of an artist, and is endlessly fascinating, Jimson the shambling, vital Bohemian is Guinness's triumph, aand what a pity it is that he has never found or been given another vehicle like this one: for here, surely, in the emotionally intricate realm of sentimental, subtle farce Guinness is at his very best. His Jimson is much funnier than his man in a suit, much more...
Although the research scientist does important and challenging work, Wood argued that the practicing physician assumes the vital obligation of bringing the benefits of scientific progress to his patients. The doctor thus becomes "involved in human suffering," he said...