Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent calamitous hotel fire in Las Vegas [Feb. 23] once again emphasizes the need for protection against death from smoke asphyxiation. Would it not be feasible to install in each hotel room simple gas masks and instructions for their use? This would give guests those extra vital minutes in which to escape or be rescued...
...conviction, the major abuses to human rights are occurring today. But this is an ancillary problem related to our more strongly held concern that past human rights policies have in many instances been counterproductive, not only to the objective of strengthening human rights but also from the standpoint of vital American interests...
...access to it. Declared Weinberger: "We cannot deter that effort from 7.000 miles away. We have to be there in a credible way." That seemed to echo the so-called Carter Doctrine, in which the previous Administration proclaimed that the U.S. would meet any challenge in the vital oil-producing region. The difference was that Reagan hopes to make the doctrine a threat with a punch behind...
...swinging the bat at a .313 clip when a knee injury felled him last July. A left-handed hitter with absolutely no power, Remy is the only real base-stealing threat in the Boston arsenal. For a team theoretically sporting a multi-dimensional attack, speed would seem to be vital...
Rarely has any country so desperately needed a bailout. With a $27 billion foreign debt, declining production and plummeting exports, Poland seems to be teetering on the verge of economic collapse. That would be a calamity that the Soviets, for all their vital interest in shoring up a key satellite, might not be able to prevent. Ironically, the economic salvation of Communist Poland may depend on a coterie of Western capitalists with a quantity of bad debts on their hands...