Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today. We are being asked to place the welfare of the next patient on a recipient list above the best interests of our own patient. The criteria for brain death can be too loosely applied these days, especially if there is a publicity campaign for the transplant of a vital organ, such as a pediatric organ. Richard G. Nilges, M.D. Chicago
...Senate Armed Services Committee, where he will be a visible and vocal presence in the increasingly high-profile arms-control debate. He told TIME he will exercise "a strong voice" against unbridled defense spending and will argue that "a strong economy and a strong society are more vital to national security" than a string of new weapons systems. "Who knows," he says, flashing his famous smile. "Someday I may do it again." As he said at the press conference, "I don't think it's any mystery that I would like to be President." -By Maureen Dowd. Reported...
...underground communications centers, housing the vital electronics for firing and controlling the MXs, would be similarly shielded, relying on fiber optics and lasers rather than conventional wiring to resist the devastating effects on electrical circuits known as electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from nuclear blasts. To clear the way for the missiles, giant, hydraulically powered blades would rise out of the silos and sweep away obstructing rubble. Once launched, the MXs would be traveling much slower than the incoming Soviet missiles. Thus, as they rose through the cloud of dust and debris, the buildup of heat on their exteriors would...
...Administration maintains, the MX is absolutely vital to American safety-if we quite literally cannot live without it-then why put a hundred of the missiles in one spot? Does not the basing plan exacerbate the problem it is supposed to solve, which is the vulnerability of American missiles to a Soviet preemptive first strike? Asked this question on the eve of the President's speech, an Administration official charged with helping to sell the program shrugged his shoulders and conceded that there was "something counterintuitive" about the concept. That is a fancy way of saying it defies common...
...Brien and other officials assert confidently that these charges are indeed correct. The documentation could be improved, they admit, but they stress that that is not the vital issue...