Word: vitality
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...disaster brought the country's reeling economy to its knees. Mud slides destroyed 25 miles of Ecuador's vital oil pipeline, which begins at Lago Agrio and travels 340 miles through the Andes to the Pacific port of Balao. The rupture forced the suspension of oil exports, which in recent years have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without...
...literature. For more than two centuries, he and his black companion Friday have provoked countless imitations, parodies, cartoons and advertisements. But from the earliest days, in addition to the parasol and firearm, the beachcombers have also carried some heavy moral baggage. Rousseau considered Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel vital to the education of ambitious youth; Coleridge regarded Crusoe as the "universal representative"; and Karl Marx found the plot an illustration of basic economics...
...charges of spying in Israel's behalf against the U.S. This week a delegation of some 65 American Jewish leaders will arrive in Jerusalem with a blunt message for Prime Minister Shamir and other Israeli leaders: that the Pollard affair threatens to do long-term damage to Israel's vital relationship with the U.S. Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, provided a fair sample of what the Israelis can expect to hear. "What began in stupidity quickly sank into irresponsibility," he told the Washington Post last week. "If this was a rogue...
...called her on the phone and hit her with 10 vital questions about Bowling Green...
...more than 50% of their total disposable income to service their debt, according to Greenspan. Such payments, he noted, are not a problem unless income suddenly contracts, as it might when layoffs occur during recession. In such a crisis, stricken families can lose their houses, cars and other vital possessions. Many people are making themselves more vulnerable by taking out large home-equity loans. The popularity of such loans has grown enormously under the new tax-reform law, which is phasing out the deductibility of interest payments on most other kinds of consumer credit...