Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million only 20 years ago. Some Washington experts fear that these hardworking, generally bright technocrats are devoted primarily to the re-election of their congressional bosses and too inclined to justify their jobs by producing needless legislation. Others contend that these staffs provide Congress with the research and vital expertise it needs to assess the torrent of information churned out by the Administration's massive bureaucracy...
...forerunner, the Fedayoun to infiltrate Israeli settlements in the Negev desert through the Gaza Strip. In addition, Egypt kept the Strait of Tiran closed to Israel shipping (the rough equivalent of Iran threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz to the United States--which Jimmy Carter thought so vital that he was willing to invoke the specter of limited nuclear war in such an event). The second Israeli attack, coordinated with the British and French assaults on Egypt's Port Said, resulted in Moshe Dayan's army reaching Sharm el-Sheikh at the Sinai peninsula's southern...
...three of these churches are pointing the way toward a vital new expression in religious architecture. In the recent past, religious leaders and architects often conceived of modern churches as "religious plants" to accommodate psychiatric counseling, Sunday-school rooms, party kitchens, banquet halls and diverse country-club facilities. The sanctuary, scheduled for the last phase in fund-raising drives, often never made it. Sometimes services were held in low-ceilinged, linoleum-floored "fellowship halls...
...member of the local community, who can deal with personnel and who will be a creative programmer." Further, says Morris, a conductor who already has a recording contract with a major label-a kind of dowry-is an even more attractive candidate, for recordings today play a vital role in a major orchestra's financial health...
...spent much of his limited time on the road, trying to raise funds from alumni and outside groups. In addition, his attempts to seek aid from the Black Students Association (BSA), the Afro-American Cultural Center and other minority groups have alienated many of the students whose support is vital to the Foundation's success. As Gaye Williams '83, president of BSA, says: "In every other university money flows from the administration to student groups. Harvard seems to want it to go the other...