Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best explanation, Douyon believed, was that Narcisse had been poisoned in such a way that his vital signs could not be detected. The psychiatrist obtained a sample of a coma-inducing toxin from a bocor. The poison is apparently used to punish individuals who have transgressed the will of their community or family. Narcisse, for example, said that he had been "killed" by his brothers for refusing to go along with their plan to sell the family land. Ti-Femme, a female zombie also under study by Douyon, had been poisoned for refusing to marry the man her family...
...islands. Finally, the Soviet-Vietnamese Pact of 1978 ensures access for Soviet ships to the U.S. built naval base at Cam Ranh Bay. Vietnam. Essentially this gives the Soviet Union the ability to multiply many fold its operations in the Western Pacific, and to protect power along Japan's vital seaplanes...
...dollar, moreover, must be strong to fill its role as a global currency. Since some three-quarters of world commerce is conducted in dollars, a vigorous U.S. currency is vital to international economic stability and a growing volume of trade...
Nearly everyone recognizes the need for greater efficiency in U.S. hospitals. The challenge is to achieve this without jeopardizing patients. The American Medical Association fears that some hospitals will cut back on vital services or refuse to admit those who cannot be treated profitably. Part of the problem, notes Karen Davis, a health economist at Johns Hopkins, is that there is no allowance for the complexity of a case: "For example, you may have two patients with a broken hip, but one could have senile dementia and need a high level of nursing care." Under the new Medicare laws, hospitals...
...other extreme are societies without life. The vital signs are missing. When they are confronted with the need for contrition, they can manage only a growl and a blank stare. Such is the case in the petrified remains of the burned-out revolutionary states, in what Philosopher Michael Walzer calls the "failed totalitarianism" that is descended from the classic, frenzied model of Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Such is the case in the Kremlin, which had already put its frozen heart on display with its stunningly barren funeral for Leonid Brezhnev, and now showed the world that...