Word: vitality
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...only seven open letters. The most recent, distributed last spring, was largely a reiteration of a 1979 statement explaining the University's position on the issue of divesting from companies doing business in South Africa. The widely circulated letters are reserved for Bok's opinions on issues he considers vital to the health of the University...
...positive reaction to change is a vital step in any reform of either national or local standards of pre-medical education. Ultimately, any changes are dependent on what graduate schools deem acceptable. "We as an undergraduate school can design any courses that we want for pre-meds. The question is that the graduate schools don't necessarily have to accept that," Verba says...
Like other members of the Black group, Hollis also stressed the organization's importance as a support group for campus Blacks. Education School professors and group Co-Chairman Charles Willie recently echoed Hollis' remarks, saying the University must be flexible enough to appreciate the existence of a vital Black community within the larger campus matrix...
...programs of longterm, peaceful economic and social assistance for Central America, Reagan implicitly justified his Administration's policy of CIA-backed warfare against Nicaragua. He summed up his challenge to Congress in martial terms: "Will we support freedom in this hemisphere or not? Will we defend our vital interests in this hemisphere or not? Will we stop the spread of Communism in this hemisphere or not? Will we act while there is still time...
...judgment to Bose Corp., a Massachusetts electronics manufacturer, for a 1970 article that criticized one of the firm's loudspeakers. A federal appeals court overturned the award in November 1982. The Supreme Court upheld that decision by a 6-to-3 vote and in doing so underscored the vital role of appellate courts in reviewing libel actions. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that judges must satisfy themselves that "the record establishes actual malice with convincing clarity...