Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever Jones may have said, there is no doubt that the Pentagon saw advantages in acceding to the Saudi request. Saudi Arabia is a thinly populated, poorly defended country whose vital oilfields are vulnerable to attack. Ground radar, for example, would give the Saudis only two to four minutes' warning of an assault by Iranian planes flying in low over the gulf. Points out a Pentagon official: "You have to consider the possibility of irrational acts by Iran, and that means anything is possible." The availability of AWACS would extend the warning time to 15 minutes, enough to enable...
Ronald Reagan has presented Congress with a program to renew American business by encouraging savings and promoting private investment, but the productivity of business rests on the quality of its infrastructure-its network of roads rails, ports and other vital public services. If trains and trucks are slowed by poor tracks and roads, farmers and manufacturers cannot get their products to market on time, and the delay shows up in the prices of everything from soybeans to stereo sets. If city sewers and subways are already strained beyond their limits companies may be reluctant to expand and hire new workers...
...high, it will not be easy to raise money to rebuild roads, enlarge ports or repair bridges. But neither can the U.S. continue its past policy of "build it and forget it." The longer that needed restoration is postponed, the more costly it becomes. America cannot afford to starve vital parts of its infrastructure-that network of arteries that nourish the heart of the economy...
...important connections between events blur in the production's tedium; the vital subplots crumble into meaninglessness. The only spontaneity occurs when three-year-old Tyler Vogt, as one of Nora's sons, toddles onstage and glares at the audience. He's just as confused as the rest of the cast, but he doesn't try to hide it. Whatever the faults of Kean and company, their determination is clear, their failure noble...
...slips into near-unconsciousness and drops names instinctively without realizing it. (Ringo keeps telling me he's trying to stop but I just don't believe him) Nor do the references make any sense whatsoever: they become for the dropper as (God, I hope things work out for Theda) vital an element of speech as inhaling and exhaling--occurring inexorably and reflexively. (Why won't Woody just realize he's peaked?) This is a horrifying state (I wonder if Marion will ever work again) of affairs because the dropper's speech and thought patterns are rendered virtually...