Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live television interview one week after her triumphant tour of the Falkland Islands. Thatcher said the missiles are vital to counter a Soviet build...
...maintain them. Incredibly, Congress did not vote a penny in federal funds for interstate repairs until 1976, when the system was already 20 years old, and routine maintenance remains a state obligation. Neglect at state and county levels is most obvious on the farm-to-market roads that are vital to agricultural production. As farms have grown larger, huge tractors, combines and cultivators are literally pulverizing these roads, which were built for much lighter loads. The family farmer who commonly hauled 100 bu. of corn to town has given way to corporate operators who use huge tractor-trailers...
...much at stake in the outcome of that search. Not only do the Caribbean islands (total pop. about 26.5 million) extend across vital American shipping lanes, but most of the tiny nations, ranging in population from Barbados' 79,000 to Cuba's 10.3 million, have another special asset that is rare in the developing world. Despite a cruel history of imported slavery, colonialism and harsh exploitation, the fledgling states remain among the most democratically governed in the world. The major exceptions: Cuba, Grenada and Haiti. Most of the other governments are aware of, if not always responsive...
Handel: Water Music (Erato). This buoyant, vital performance on original instruments by John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists is simply the best available...
...walks during last month's fifth flight of Columbia. They were to be the first EVAS (for extravehicular activity) by American astronauts since Skylab crew members exited into space in 1973 to make external repairs on their orbital laboratory. Mission controllers called off the latest walks after a vital oxygen-and-coolant circulating fan in Astronaut Joe Allen's backpack wheezed and sputtered, and the pressure in Astronaut Bill Lenoir's suit failed to reach acceptable levels...