Word: vitality
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From the Kremlin's point of view, there is still a strong case for intervention. A primary consideration is military. If Poland ever seemed likely to secede from the Warsaw Pact, cutting off Moscow's vital rail links and supply lines to East Germany, Soviet tanks could be expected to roll in immediately. Ideological factors could prove equally persuasive. Even before the outbreak of labor unrest last summer, Poland showed some dangerous deviations from Communist orthodoxy: a strong Catholic Church, private ownership of 75% of the country's farm land, a flourishing dissident movement. Then, the birth...
...vast natural wealth, the U.S. is dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers for a number of imports vital for defense production or high-technology equipment. President Reagan warned last month that "it is now widely recognized that our nation is vulnerable to sudden shortages in basic raw materials." Last week the Senate subcommittee on energy and mineral resources continued hearings on how to expand domestic production of strategic materials and start increasing the small American stockpile...
While student energy is wasted because of duplicated efforts on some issues, other issues of vital interest and impact are deliberately overlooked by the administration. An alternative meal plan, a convenient option provided by most other colleges, has been repeatedly proposed by students, yet never has been seriously considered by those with the power to implement...
...committees must work without organized student support or guidance. As a result, they often find it difficult to effectively oppose administration initiatives which are not in the best interests of the student body. For example, $40,000 was spent on kiosks (which cost less than $100 each elsewhere), while vital shuttle bus service, heating, and custodial services are cut back...
After the three-hour operation, which the President "sailed through with vital signs absolutely rock stable," according to O'Leary, Reagan was taken to the hospital's fourth-floor intensive-care unit, where he spent a restless night. So does almost everyone in such a unit: the lights are kept on; nurses and doctors move about constantly, checking vital signs and taking blood samples; monitors hooked up to patients beep incessantly. Reagan was given antibiotics to combat possible infections and pain medication to ease his moderate discomfort, more the result of the operation than the bullet injury...