Word: vitality
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Ferguson and Wilson now face a $100 fine and up to a year in jail. But college students, for many of whom a care package is the vital link with home, can imagine a more fitting punishment for their crime: the ignominious court-postal. The U.S. Postal Service patches are ripped off the shoulders of the sweaters of the disgraced pair. Their scales and scotch-tape dispensers are smashed, and they are demoted to forever sorting mail without zip codes in the Dead Letter Office. The wretches fall to their knees and beg for lenience, but their judges are firm...
...thus represents the key to fulfilling the Campaign's top-heavy budgeting. Thomas Cabot, who also serves as the 1919 class chairman, has been actively involved in this effort. He recounts trips to California, Buffalo, and New York City for face-to-face meetings, which he says are vital to snaring the truly large gift...
That internal confrontation was only a prelude to the struggles the Chancellor faces in the months ahead. In a country where economic performance is a vital part of the national identity, Kohl won the election on pocketbook issues. Long accustomed to impressive rates of economic growth, West Germany may see an increase in industrial production of little more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. Although the country was welcoming migrant workers from Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Portugal only four years ago, some 2.5 million West Germans, or more than 10% of the working population, are now unemployed. The public...
Williamson redefines the modern world from an almost romantic point of view. The elegy "Dream Without End," puts into practice William Wordsworth's idea that beauty is even more vital when resurrected in the memory. And, like John Keats, Williamson sees life as a source of light...
Ever since that first experience with others' negative opinions about Harvard, Carey, as both a student and admissions recruiter, has devoted time to improving the University's image, especially among minorities. Because of the many misconceptions about Harvard, she says. "The recruitment effort is so vital...