Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoisted alongside South Korea's white, red, blue and black emblem atop the city's squat Capitol Building. Nakasone pledged that his country would grant $4 billion in preferential aid to South Korea and declared that "my visit may mark the beginning of a new and vital stage in our relationship." Replied Chun: "Your visit is a historic, indeed monumental, milestone in our relations." From Washington's point of view, the rapprochement has two benefits: a strengthening of ties between non-Communists on the Asian periphery and a further emphasis on mutual self-help in the region...
Protectionist trade barriers are clearly no answer to the industry's woes. But as the vital signs of a recovering economy at long last begin to work their way through business in the months ahead, steelmen need at all costs to avoid the sort of calamitous strike that would knock their companies flat as well as send imports leaping. Only after the industry has struggled back to profitability can it have any hope of solving its deeply rooted long-range problems. For now, at least, the challenge facing Big Steel is measured in months, not years...
...accident or manacled to his genetic linkage. But as Medved's thorough probings indicate, the doctors, nurses and attendants are not wardens. They are far more authoritative: they are descendants of an ancient caste of magician-priests who, despite exposés and malpractice suits, still exert a vital influence on our bodies, to say nothing of our imaginations...
Your article "Low-Tech Teaching Blues" [Dec. 27] describes a problem that will plague our nation in the years ahead. We must realize that there is a vital connection between our national security, our world leadership in high technology, our life-style and the quality of education that we give our future leaders. While other nations increase their commitment to teaching, the U.S. debates about what programs...
Clark's day begins at 8 a.m. when a nurse awakens him for a sponge bath and a series of tests. At least once every eight hours his blood chemistry, cardiac output and other vital signs are checked. After a morning visit from his doctors, Clark rests briefly and then is helped into an overstuffed recliner chair, where he sits until 5 or 6 p.m. His frequent catnaps are interrupted by two 20-minute sessions of exercises to strengthen his muscles and improve his circulation...