Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remaining two could be quickly returned to duty. Responding to the claim that fewer than half of the 2,100 U.S. tactical jet fighters are fully "mission capable," Brown maintained that the figure is misleading because combat readiness would be given top priority in wartime. Said the Secretary: "The vital question is not how various military units score in our status reporting or readiness rating system. The important question is: Are we able to go to war if necessary and to fight effectively? Let me assure you, the answer to that question...
...casualness of turtleneck jersey and chino pants, his butcher-boy haircut tousled by the wind, Sagan sends out an exuberant message: science is not only vital for humanity's future wellbeing, but it is rousing good fun as well. Even the most scientifically untutored person can?indeed, must?grasp its essentials. As Sagan insists, "There is nothing about science that cannot be explained to the layman...
...Jimmie Blacksmith's rampage continues, the film transcends the individual acts. On perfectly sunny days, human beings explode, literally explode, gaping holes where vital organs once were. And yet the Terror becomes metaphor. Nothing is what it seems. It only takes a second. In the end Blacksmith is as destroyed by the violence he makes. "Does anybody deserve this?" Jimmie is asked. In one incredible sequence, Jimmie Blacksmith stands on an ancient sacred Aborigine spot, an amazing visual juxtaposition, part Old World and part Urban Present. He has no blood ties. No gods. The only justification in his mind...
...rocking, punishing kind of stalemate set in. The enemies exchanged thundering barrages of artillery across the Shatt al Arab estuary. Iraqi infantrymen intent on consolidating their sliver of captured Iranian territory took heavy losses in hand-to-hand fighting for possession of three key towns and a vital port installation. Iranian Phantom fighter-bombers streaked low under the radar in deep penetration raids all the way to the enemy capital of Baghdad. Beneath the orange fireballs and black smoke gushing from bombarded storage tanks, the oil refining and shipping facilities of both countries suffered such severe damage that years...
...size. Many of the region's rulers fear that the longer the war continues, the higher the risk that their small nations will somehow be drawn into it. Worse still, the gulf states fear that the Western powers could feel compelled to step in to protect their vital oil supplies...