Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still unidentified teenage computer whiz was caught before too much harm could be done to Sloan-Kettering, but the scenario shows with dramatic immediacy the vital importance of securing computing systems. It is easy to see the ever increasing role that computers play in our society. They control the fate of "the earth through the Defense Department's vast force of nuclear armaments and early warning systems. From the immediate process of buying a ticket or confirming a reservation to the more general duties of navigation and air-traffic control they determine the fate of every passenger on every plane...
...hospital, the Prime Minister's body was taken to the eighth-floor operating theater. There, despite the lack of any vital signs, a team of twelve doctors desperately tried to perform a miracle. After putting her on an artificial lung and a heart machine, they removed seven bullets; in the process, they gave her 88 bottles of type O Rh-negative blood. Cabinet ministers waited in the hospital conference room, some stunned and speechless, some weeping. "They could not believe she was dead," a young doctor said later. "They would not accept that she was gone." It was not until...
...week after the historic transplant operation at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Southern California, the first infant?though not the first person?to receive a simian heart was reported to be doing remarkably well. "All vital signs are still good, and there's no sign of rejection," said Hospital Spokeswoman Patti Gentry, noting that Baby Fae was "just gulping down her formula." Outside the hospital, there was wonder and excitement over this latest medical marvel, but the enthusiasm was dampened somewhat by controversy. Antivivisectionists around the country and abroad protested what they called "ghoulish tinkering" with human and animal...
OSCAR WILDE'S MASTERPIECE "The Importance of Being Ernest" is as self-conscious a piece of fluff as ever there was. The play, indeed, is full of references to its own triviality. When one character advises another, "In matters of grave importance, style not sincerity is the vital thing," she could be talking about Wilde's own philosophy...
...public was the authorship of the conspiracy. A government prosecutor last June sent Martella a report, which was leaked to the press, asserting that "some political figure of great power," presumably in the Soviet Union, watched the rise of Poland's Solidarity labor movement and, "mindful of the vital needs of the Eastern bloc," decided that the Polish-born Pontiff must be killed...