Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lately, Hallice helped communicate vital information to Somerville authorities who were without an adequate radio system during the spill of toxic gases last year...
...gift was the ability to create characters so vital that they seemed to leap from the page: the ebullient Gigi, skipping through the Tuileries; the elegant and doomed Chéri, in love with a woman twice his age; and Lea, archetype of the older woman, wise, but not yet wizened by age and experience. But Colette's greatest invention was Colette, the country girl who conquered Paris and captured life itself...
...defense policies; for example, he refused to say whether he backed the proposed mobile MX missile system or favored abolishing draft registration. Weinberger did, however, also aim a blast at the outgoing Administration. Refusing to endorse the Carter doctrine that the U.S. would go to war to protect its vital interests in the Persian Gulf, he charged that Carter's failure to consult with allies before proclaiming the doctrine was "extraordinarily clumsy and ill-advised...
Both the American public and Congress seem increasingly in the mood to back a substantial overhaul of the agency. There is a widespread perception that despite its lamentable excesses in the past, the CIA cannot be permitted to languish, that its mission is vital to U.S. security. Says Barry Goldwater, the new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee: "I think the CIA is going to find a very cordial reception here. It's difficult to discover any opposition to intelligence. We've learned...
...recovery. The oil exporters will drain $120 billion from the importing countries next year, and every Western nation seems determined to reduce its deficit in order to keep its currency strong. As governments slow their economies by escalating interest rates, they also choke off the capital investment that is vital for renewed growth. An additional danger is that, as unemployment rises, workers will demand protection from imports. New barriers to world trade would ensure sluggish growth. European industrialists have already been lobbying governments to limit the imports of American textiles and Japanese cars...