Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relocation. As their part of the settlement, the tenants in the building during the negotiations agreed to support Harvard efforts to remove the complex from the city's tight housing market The rent board has never granted a removal permit for so many units, and tenant approval is considered vital...
...shock, both for its ferocity and its stakes. The invasion of Lebanon surprised no one, except insofar as one is always surprised to see somebody do what he threatens to do. The Falklands are of purely symbolic importance to the contenders. Control of southern Lebanon is of vital practical advantage to each side. Between the British and the Argentines there was a history of compatibility; between the Israelis and the P.L.O., a history of hatred. Argentina is conservative and antiCommunist; the P.L.O. radical and Communist supported. In the Falklands, the U.S. was watching friend fight friend; in Lebanon, an ally...
...Palestine Liberation Organization braced for the final assault. But far more than the P.L.O.'s fate hung in the balance. Israel's blitz had thoroughly scrambled the pieces of the Middle East puzzle, posing enormous risks and offering unexpected opportunities to work for peace in that embattled and strategically vital corner of the world. If the P.L.O. were neutralized and the Syrians persuaded to depart the country, there would be a chance that a strong, stable Lebanese government could be shaped from the various Christian and Muslim factions that shared power before the 1975-76 civil war. The battering...
Cities like Detroit, Boston, and New York share a common, vital heritage in The Summer Game, which reaches back to the turn of the century. But while New York has recently bought pennants, the Tigers have stumbled along, reinforcing the mediocrity which pervades all Detroit sports...
...STORY that Keith Richards dreamed up "Satisfaction" while skidding around in some fast car is too good to be true. It was that song that launched the Stones into their most vital stage, from 1965 to 1972. "Satisfaction" was also a song about America, specifically, about fast women and grabbing for success. The drugs soon entered this fast-moving world, and the bad little boys began growing into the reputations carved out for them as early as 1963. Eventually, the dope, smack, uppers and downers, the busts and jail sentences, piled up to form a wall even the Stones could...