Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephones, they permit strangers to listen in on personal conversations. Although some may find the fishbowl atmosphere intimidating, others, like Sir Weej, are exhilarated to discover an audience that will respond to their thoughts. "I sense fertile ground here," he says. "I have not felt so connected and vital in a long time...
...question vital to Soviet intentions about the tragedy is who authorized the order to fire. The hours of radar tracking and even the period of scrambling after Flight 007 entered Soviet airspace would allow ample time for the matter to be passed all the way back to Moscow. Lynn Hansen, of the Center for Strategic Technology at Texas A & M, doubts that anyone below a three-star colonel-general, such as a Far East-theater air-defense deputy commander, "could make that weighty a decision; they're all scared of that responsibility." Georgia Tech Sovietologist Daniel Papp warns that...
...face its worst political crisis in decades because of Aquino's murder. The assassination seared the country's consciousness and may have dealt a mortal blow to the idea of a nonviolent and nonmilitary succession in the Philippines after Marcos. The prospect of upheaval, in turn, threatens vital U.S. interests in the strategic islands...
...working TDRS is the key to the shuttle's next flight, ST59 (scheduled for Oct. 28). The system will be vital to the operation of the European-built Spacelab, a laboratory for ongoing space experiments to be borne aloft by STS-9. To reassure Spacelab's anxious European backers, NASA added a day to the initial schedule for STS-8, thus allowing more time for the crew to check the voice, data and video transmission circuits of TDRS. Though the system delivered an "out of order" message to the President, NASA technicians were at pains to insist that...
Every Main Street, U.S.A., needs a few vital businesses: a grocery store, a pharmacy, a barber shop and a bank. So when the Bank of America decided to close its branch in Piru, Calif, (pop. 1,284), the residents felt stranded. They would now be forced to drive eight miles on a winding road to Fillmore (pop. 9,602) to do their banking. "We didn't realize that people would get as excited as they did," said Thomas Beeler, the bank's area manager, after facing 100 shouting citizens at a Piru town meeting...