Word: vitality
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Administrator and student supporters both acknowledge that student body support for the new government is vital for its survival. One early measure of support they say, will be the number of students who refuse to fund the government and request a refund Other key indicators will be the number of candidates for the Council and the percentage of students voting in the October election...
...turn, warned members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Arab nations "would hold the U.S. responsible" for a bloody Israeli assault on West Beirut, and hinted at retaliation. Committee Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois wondered whether this might take the form of a cutback in the oil production vital to Western economies and a massive withdrawal of Arab money from American banks. So the moment of opportunity for American policymakers in the Middle East is also a moment of peril...
...scenic hills of Gloucestershire. Known in the trade as GCHQ (for Government Communications Headquarters), the facility receives and analyzes data from a worldwide system of spy bases, ships, planes and satellites. It operates round the clock and employs some 10,000 staffers round the globe. Cheltenham is a vital part of the West's constant effort to break the Soviet Union's military and diplomatic codes. Now there is a distinct possibility that GCHQ may have unwittingly been providing information to the Soviets, a disaster that, if true, could nullify many of Britain's code-breaking efforts...
Over the past century, Meharry Medical College in Nashville has trained 40% of the nation's practicing black doctors and dentists, most of whom have provided health care to the poor. Yet despite this vital contribution, Meharry has been struggling lately to maintain its mission, and even its existence. Over the past decade, the nation's larger and better-known medical schools have adopted affirmative-action admissions policies that have siphoned off some of Meharry's best talent. Hubbard Hospital, Meharry's teaching facility, has been running into heavy debt. Meharry students have not enjoyed access...
...vital transmission occurs. You can pass books across time across death, like fire, and have them catch. The process averts the disaster of unawareness. Of silence...