Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miller and Stoeckel will deal with two vital areas of concern, women's sports and recruitment of qualified athletes. They should give the department some needed assistance in dealing with these difficult and often blurry issues...
Carter's strategists were pushing hard for as many sessions as possible with Reagan and were insisting, quite stubbornly, that the first one, which all agree could be crucial in making vital impressions on viewers, should not include Anderson. Carter's aides believe that Reagan is more likely to flub if he is matched head to head with Carter and has to face tough questioning on issues involving detailed knowledge of the Government...
...have strengthened every element of our strategic deterrent ... no potential enemy of the U.S. should anticipate for one moment a successful use of military power against our vital interests...
...four years, America's two major political parties materialize in tandem conventions that form the proscenium for the presidential campaign to come. Some argue that these outbursts of ritual and oratory are anachronisms as doomed as dinosaurs. But as this and the following stories show, New York was a vital festival for the Democrats last week. Myths were made and unmade, plinths erected, men and women tested, principles examined and policies established?all essential ingredients to getting the show on the road...
...would baffle the most finicky pedant. The fact is that platforms are greater than the sum of their planks. They indicate the direction in which a party is heading; at the least they exercise a subliminal influence on the nominee and, if he is elected, on his policies. Occasionally, vital issues are at stake. The refusal of the Republican Party to compromise with slavery in 1860 marked a turning point in American history; so did the adoption by the Democrats of the "free silver"* plank in 1896. The struggle over the Viet Nam War plank at the 1968 Democratic Convention...