Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter's defeat represents a setback for the Democratic Party in the short run, certainly, and Reagan's election presents troubling prospects for the next four years. But 1980 offers, with bitter finality, a vital lesson for Democratic leaders as the party regroups for the next decade: that for the Democratic Party to get out its voters and mobilize its power, it must take Democratic stands and nominate Democratic candidates. For future reference, this means that the party's presidential nominee should not support the use of unemployment to combat inflation, should not support a foreign policy of military intervention...
Representatives of Federal Express made important appearances in Cambridge and Philadelphia yesterday, delivering parcels to Harvard football coach Joe Restic and Penn head coach Harry Gamble. It was the vital weekly ritual known as Exchange of Game Films, and both coaching staffs--fresh from exploring films of their own squad's last contest--sat down to pore over the footage of their adversary for this weekend's matchup at Franklin Field...
...positions with Phantom jet and helicopter attacks. Tehran radio broadcasts claimed that Iranian ground troops had pushed the Iraqis back on the northern fringes of the 500-mile invasion front. The week's grim work left hundreds dead on both sides. Houses, schools and mosques lay in ruins. Vital oil pipelines were shattered and gnarled, while plumes of thick black smoke rose over burning refineries...
...month ago. The difference lies in the consideration that I intend to appeal this lower court decision, if necessary, to the highest level--inasmuch as I view this as a matter that extends far beyond any personal interests, in affecting the very nature of a university and touching on vital issues of academic freedom, due process and equal protection of the laws...
Cobb makes no apologies for the Hancock tower. He admits that it was finally approved for economic and not aesthetic reasons. "It served the vital economic interests of the community that this company should stay in Boston," he states, adding that he "adopted a strategy of minimalism because the situation demanded it. We excluded everything that didn't contribute, in an effort to temper the inherent arrogance of such a building...