Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their eyes on their instruments while still scanning the ground ahead. Electrocular, say Hughes engineers, will solve their problem. It will also help surgeons to go about their work even while they are watching instruments reporting the second-to-second condition of the patient's heart and other vital organs...
...material substituted flexible steel mesh for timber, in a way that simplified the cementing process and thus allowed for vital short-cuts in reinforced concrete construction. The substance could be mass-produced at a ferro-cement factory established by Nervi in 1945. Prefabrication, a second vital innovation, allowed the builder to transport parts from a center of mass production to the building site and simplified the actual job of erecting the structure...
...benign head of a Cabinet system that determines fundamental policy. There are no messy, squabbling, White House staffs. The President, like Mr. Nixon when his chief was in the hospital, consults his Cabinet, resolves its views into harmony, and distills from it the vital "essences" of decision that will keep the nation peaceful and prosperous...
...spending abroad and get other nations to assume a larger share of military defense costs. At the same time, the U.S. must work toward a balanced budget, check inflation and meet foreign business competition. Said the President: "We must harness the energies of all of our people to the vital task of keeping our industry competitive and expanding our exports." Said Dillon: "Above all else is the compelling need for business and labor to exert conscious restraint in shaping wage and price policies...
...accelerated modernization program for an operation that is historically inefficient. Some of the Post Office's inefficiency may be inherently uncorrectable. Three-fifths of the nation's 34,995 post offices do an annual business of less than $5,000 a year, and though they are too vital to eliminate, they are also too small to accommodate new cost-reducing techniques. But where it could improve, the department has been slow-or has lacked the funds-to do so. Last year it spent $12 million or about one-third of one per cent of its revenues for research...