Word: vitality
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...reason is that voters now seem to be heeding warnings by public officials that another deep reduction in taxes would endanger vital government services, such as education and police and fire protection. Similar gloomy prophecies proved spectacularly wrong after Proposition 13 passed in 1978. But the state had a $5 billion surplus then, most of which it made available to the city and county governments dependent on property taxes to soften the impact of Proposition 13. Now the state's surplus is down to about $2.6 billion. Opponents of Proposition 9 argue that by slashing income tax revenues...
...sure, France was not the only country to raise worries in Washington about the common purposes of the Western alliance. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, regarded as America's staunchest supporter in Europe, was forced to back away from a vital part of a European Community agreement reached in Naples last week, which supported the U.S. call for economic sanctions against Iran...
...defense of Giscard's mission, French spokesmen argued that it had been designed to re-establish a vital line of communications between the West and the U.S.S.R. The five-hour summit in Wilanow Palace-with Polish Communist Party Boss Edward Gierek as host-had produced no perceptible relaxation of East-West tension, much less any Soviet concession on Afghanistan. But the French argued that at least they had set a precedent that might lead to more fruitful talks in the future. French officials said that preparations for the meeting had been kept secret because Brezhnev, whose health is notoriously...
...American passenger vessels and chartered airliners for safer passage across the straits. First, the U.S. had to know just which of the estimated 250,000 Cubans who have applied for exit visas actually have close kin in America. The crush at Opa-Locka was to place names on that vital list...
...contrary, this incident demonstrates how vital it is for the public to have opportunities to make up its own mind about a nation on which we are growing increasingly dependent as a result of President Carter's failed energy policy. Until the U.S. develops renewable energy resources, and adequate conservation, it will continually find itself tempted to sacrifice its own values to please foreign governments...