Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twice tested-by an ally's abrupt action and a vital neighbor's visit...
...failed to make scheduled payments on the staggering $27 billion debt that it owes Western governments and banks and technically went into default. Moreover, the Poles urgently need as much as $4 billion in new loans merely to keep up with interest on their current debt and pay for vital imports, including grain, oil and iron...
...matinee idol portraying a gangster. Perhaps the best pure photography in the show is a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson gave a photo to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner that meets Weston's dictum: it lays open a vital and engaging face. A forefinger of his clasped hands points outward like a conductor's baton, and intelligence, so rarely caught on film, dances in warm eyes...
Discussing the role of the GSE in society, Ylvisaker said the school had a "moral obligation" to support the public school system because it is "too vital a parrt of the American tradition, too important in the lives and hopes of our less privileged families and children, to allow them to be victimized by a political calculus that counts only the declining voting strength of parents with children still in school...
...seconds. They can hit suddenly, without any obvious hint of previous disease, when coronary arteries pinch shut in a spasm. But they usually result from a lifelong buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries that nourish the heart. If these coronary vessels become badly obstructed, the flow of vital blood and oxygen is reduced or cut off entirely. When that happens, parts of the heart are starved. It is the death of cardiac muscle that constitutes a heart attack...