Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very positive thinkers," said Hanson's wife, Co-Master Cynthia R. Hanson. "We feel that we have the financial backing, but most of all the moral support and belief that Dudley House is important and vital to the life of the University. Both President Bok and Dean Jewett have expressed that," she said...
...very positive thinkers," said Hanson's wife, Co-Master Cynthia R. Hanson. "We feel that we have the financial backing, but most of all the moral support and belief that Dudley House is important and vital to the life of the University. Both President Bok and Dean Jewett have expressed that," she said...
...rhetoric notwithstanding, neither Bush nor Dukakis has made the conceptual breakthrough that would permit the U.S. to fashion the school system it deserves. While looking through different lenses, both seem to view federal education spending as a frilly, bloated social program rather than as a vital national-security program at least equal in priority to maintaining strong armed forces. During the Reagan years, despite growing concern about huge deficits, the largest peacetime military buildup in the nation's history boosted spending for defense 37% in inflation-adjusted dollars to annual levels of nearly $300 billion. Federal outlays for elementary...
...wonderful to hear prominent Republicans suddenly discovering the vital role of the National Guard in preserving our freedom. Quayle himself said in his Thursday-night acceptance speech that he is "proud" of his National Guard service, during which he was trained as a welder and then put to work grinding out press releases. The same people who make a big issue of Michael Dukakis' veto of a law requiring people to recite the Pledge of Allegiance -- implying, though never saying, that this casts doubt on Dukakis' patriotism -- insist that it is somehow a cheap shot to ask what Dan Quayle...
...Kimmitt, who was in charge of the background checks. Kimmitt -- the top attorney at Treasury when Campaign Chairman James Baker was the Cabinet Secretary -- was under firm instructions to share most of his findings only with Bush. Thus, despite the broad-ranging search for a running mate, the most vital information of all was in the end filtered through a two-man channel...