Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concept is most applicable when our vital national interests are involved, rather than a situation such as this, where President Bush decided to go into Somalia for humanitarian reasons only. When U.S. troops are involved absent a vital national interest, then some hard questions have to be asked, including, Will our forces be fully protected? But I wouldn't say that every time U.S. forces are involved anyplace, you have to have 500,000 troops...
...protecting our vital national interests, this Administration is doing extremely well. Our support for Yeltsin; our involvement in the Middle East peace process; what we've done in nonproliferation with Russia, China, North Korea; promoting global economic growth. President Clinton's leadership doesn't have to give anything away to President Bush, and that's putting it mildly...
...inevitably casts a shadow on Bosnia. It shows the relative impatience of the American people for the involvement of American troops in situations where our vital national interests are not so directly engaged. On Haiti, if the situation there does not work out successfully, it affects us: for example, by creating refugee flows...
...director; her name summons the conflicts of defiant artistry and compromised morality. Thus the U.S. publication of Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir (St. Martin's Press; $35) and the U.S. premiere of Ray Muller's documentary The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (at the New York Film Festival) are vital artistic events...
...growth, heavy debt repayments, endemic poverty, proliferating crime and a growing drug culture. Tackling any one of these problems will require strong will and strong political support. No one doubts that Bhutto has the will, but no one is betting that she will be able to muster the second vital ingredient...