Word: vitality
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...community. A fuller apology would have been preferable, but having apologized, the Review should be given a second chance to prove itself a responsible member of the Dartmouth community. As a conservative. I believe that the legitimate message of the Review, but not its past offensive messages, to be vital both to Dartmouth and even other colleges as well. Even The New Republic agreed that "There is a need for special-interest newspapers on college campuses," conservative as well as liberal, libertarian, or what-have-you. That article continued to commend the Review, even while deploring its past actions...
...area surrounding the Persian Gulf is vital to the industrialized democracies of the world. More than 20% of the U.S.'s oil imports, 56% of Western Europe's and 68% of Japan's come from the gulf. That lifeline is acutely vulnerable to the disruptions of war, revolution and political turmoil. The region has been beset by all three. The conservative Arab states-Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman-face threats to their security at every point of the compass: a simmering, potentially explosive war between Iran and Iraq, armored Soviet divisions...
Nonetheless, these countries displayed impressive adaptability and resilience. Because the sanctions were never imposed uniformly by all nations, the target countries evaded the embargoes and avoided economic collapse by rerouting their trade through sympathetic allies or neutrals. Italy bought vital oil supplies from the U.S., which was not a member of the League of Nations. Rhodesia funneled chrome shipments and other exports through South Africa and Mozambique, where they were resold to other countries. Cuba eased its economic troubles by accepting aid from the Soviet Union...
Though the pitch was not phrased in exactly that way, the MTA did indeed offer last July to lease two vacant subway tunnels to "an imaginative entrepreneur." Now Vital Records Inc. of Raritan, N.J., thinks that it has enough imagination. The company, which stores financial records on computer tapes and microfilm for 50 of the largest U.S. corporations, proposes to convert the tunnels into a vast underground filing cabinet...
...hecklers in the back of the gilded dance hall of Blackpool's Winter Garden Complex were, for the most part, uncharacteristically silent. The debate, Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, 69, coolly told his party's annual conference, was vital to Labor's chances of ousting the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher is expected to call a general election by next fall, and Foot's warning did not go unheeded. After hours of impassioned speeches by partisans of left, right and center, the 1,229 delegates voted by an unexpectedly large ratio of more...