Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also seriously threatened: VOIR (for Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar), a scheme to place a radar-equipped robot in orbit around Venus and map its cloud-covered surface. NASA officials are even talking about mothballing the Deep Space Network, a globe-girdling array of antennas that acts as a vital communications "downlink" with all U.S. unmanned planetary spacecraft. One effect of such a move would be to silence the transmissions of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is scheduled to pass by Uranus...
...highest predators of the biological chain, scavengers for people who don't hunt, gather or cook their meals. Depending on how you look at it, they occupy the highest or lowest rung in a society whose purpose is enjoyment. Their services indispensable for running restaurants, they are the vital link in the economy of hedonistic culture. Civilizations without the affluence and leisure to afford dining out certainly do not need dishwashers, but ours can't survive without them...
...modern group of users is effectively indistinguishable from other elements of society. "These are people from the establishment," says Gelineau. "Most of their peers are content to turn and look the other way." Gelineau points out that in most large companies, alcohol reform and other social services are deemed vital, yet, despite the high probabilities of soft and hard drug use, these issues are never confronted...
...sentence in a first-degree-murder trial. We shared one common feeling when the trial was over; we had done what we had to do, not what we wanted to do. Those six days were among the most difficult and exhausting of my life. It was an "irksome, boring, vital, rewarding" and sobering ordeal...
...CONSEQUENCE and the underlying contradiction of the court's ruling, then, is this: Having found a new convention, it endangers an old and vital convention, namely, that Britain plays no active part in the country's business. If the British parliament intervenes on the issue of the constitution, it will set a precedent. What will stop it from intervening on the issue of an election--for example, to keep a friendly party in power even after that party has lost a Canadian election? Or to defeat a budget whose policies might prove disadvantageous to Britain? Or to siphon off Canadian...