Word: vitality
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...heavy reliance on British programs is something that A&E executives hope to alleviate gradually. Says Vice President of Programming Curtis Davis: "It's vital that a network like ours has programming that speaks to an American audience in an American voice." A&E is looking to local communities and arts institutions for some of that programming. One current example is The Baltimore Funny Pages, a comedy series originally produced for a Baltimore cable channel...
...specific window in New York City's World Trade Center by firing a rifle bullet from the top of the John Hancock Building in Chicago. The sensors also would have to flash back instantaneous assessments of what targets had been hit, so that a battle station would not waste vital seconds aiming a laser or particle beam at a missile or warhead already destroyed...
ALTHOUGH IT MAY NO longer be an important part of undergraduate life, the club has an illustrious past as a vital part of College life. After the first attempt at founding a club failed in the 1890s, head football coach Percy D. Haughton '99 and team captain Francis H. Burr '09 revived the club in the fall...
...Samuelson for the first time has a co-author, Yale Professor William Nordhaus, who served on President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Samuelson, 69, who will retire in May from his professorship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose Nordhaus, 43, to help keep the book timely and vital by updating and revising some sections. Says Samuelson: "It was a big decision. The book is like a child...
...ever since the founding of this nation, lawmakers and courts have also recognized a vital competing right: for society to have free and open discussion of public issues and the performance of public officials, so that an informed people can govern themselves. To further that goal, the First Amendment guarantee of freedom was written on behalf of a press that was far more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave...