Word: vitality
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While voices in America call to bring our troops home, and many Europeans, particularly the French, are calling on Europe to take responsibility for its own defense, Europe still remains a region vital for the United States' security and long-run prosperity...
...TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister, who is travelling with Christopher, says the hitch -- concerning the security arrangements for a possible Israeli withdrawal from the disputed Golan Heights -- arose from cold feet and domestic qualms about peace in both countries. "When you get involved in these issues of such vital national security, every phrase gets dissected," McAllister says...
Whatever the source of the malaise in Bright Hockey Center was, last night's ECAC quarterfinal game felt less like the vital playoff contest that it was and more like the empty, lifeless Beanpot consolation Harvard suffered through this past February...
...apparent transformation of his successor, De Klerk-possesses the drama and intrigue of a diplomatic whodunit. Sparks uncovers fresh details about Mandela's secret outings around Cape Town with his jailers (one of whom covertly brought the grandfatherly prisoner home to meet his two small children), the vital role of Mandela's courtly lawyer, George Bizos, and the courageous actions of the wily Mac Maharaj-Mandela's former Robben Island mate and now Minister of Transportation, who once smuggled out Mandela's prison memoirs...
Stearns' opinion outlines the balance of concerns that must guide any attempt to pursue law and order in cyberspace. This new jurisprudential battleground is littered with double-edged swords. While it is clearly important that the laws of this new realm be explicit and enforceable, it is even more vital that the legal system have enough perspective and flexibility to deal with a world that is changing at fiber-optic speeds...