Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closer the group gets to that total, the larger looms the legal question of a municipality regulating an industry that could be considered vital to national security. City and industry officials are questioning the legality of the referendum...
...growing Central American turmoil. For Mexico, the Central American and Caribbean areas represent a vital interest. We are greatly troubled by the events taking place in the area. We believe that if the community of nations of this region allows a war to break out in Central America, it would be very difficult to control. The basic problem of these countries lies in the underdeveloped economic and social state in which their populations suffer. We understand the revolutionary movements we have observed, because the prevailing regimes, notably in the case of Nicaragua, have been dictatorships using violence that reached deplorable...
OSCAR WILDE'S witty dialogue is the only saving grace in the Boston Shakespeare Company's production of The Importance of Being Earnest. From Algernon Moncrief's description of the practice of "bunburrying" in the first scene to his statement in the last that "style, not sincerity, is the vital thing," all entertainment value comes from Wilde himself and not from the actors' plastic performances...
...their tea and cake--for the first time. Algernon declares with true earnestness about food, "One has to be serious about something in life to be amused." As the intricate plot unravels and the couples happily unite, the laughter subsides and Finnegan declares, "We have now realized the vital importance of being earnest." Maybe he has, but it would have helped had the BSC taken a more earnest stab at this drama. Wilde wrote a charming satire that, besides entertaining, might stimulate some thought on the excessive concern of the aristocratic class with manners and decorum. Random male-female substitution...
...appears that the Soviets may have been outfoxed. Apparently, the U.S. embassy discovered the subterfuge, and the commercial attaché in Bern intercepted the machines in France while they were en route to Moscow. Cooperating with the French counterintelligence service, he short-circuited the wiring and removed vital parts, reducing $500,000 worth of equipment to electronic scrap. But Swiss authorities warn that the scam may have a different twist: accounts of the CIA's role might have been planted by the KGB to reduce Western anxieties about the wholesale theft of technology by the Soviets...