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Word: vitality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandchildren may be watching some genteel drama on a wall-size screen in their living room. Or they may sneak out to catch Romancing the Nile LIV in a high-tech Movierama. Neither answer seems bold enough if this "art form of the 20th century" is to be a vital force in the 21st...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backing into the Future | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...military facilities in the Philippines lie at the epicenter of both the western Pacific and the presidential campaign. To the Pentagon, their eventual fate is of critical importance. As Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage said last week, "Their location astride the vital Pacific sea-lanes, plus their unmatched facilities, makes them an unsurpassable combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twin Anchors for American Might | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Clark, whose parade ground was once grazing land for the horses of the U.S. Fifth Cavalry, has a 10,500-ft. landing strip that can handle any U.S. Air Force plane. It is also a vital logistics base, storing 200,000 sq. ft. of ammunition and 1 million sq. ft. of war materiel, from spare parts to blankets. Nuclear weapons are believed to be stored at both Clark and Subic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twin Anchors for American Might | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...Lesotho people greeted the news with undisguised glee. Crowds jammed the main street of Maseru to cheer the soldiers. Outside the city, celebrators joyously tore down a highway sign bearing Jonathan's name. The news was just as warmly received in South Africa, which allowed three freight trains carrying vital food and gasoline to pass into Lesotho for the first time in three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa the Good-Neighbor Coup | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...women--even WASPS--to organize on the basis of their shared characteristic, so long as their association does no great damage to those excluded. As, for instance, in the asymmetry between Harvard and Radcliffe; the men lose a few perquisites available to the women, but nothing of vital interest; the women, Radcliffe authorities (rather more than Radcliffe students) insist, profit greatly. Our national social history gives us plentiful reason to look askance at such groupings, but our political heritage should insulate us from the mistake of failing to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of free association...

Author: By E.l. Pattullo, | Title: Final Clubs: A Curious Target for Reformist Zeal | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

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