Word: vitality
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...shown how they propose to drive Serbia out of Bosnia; and 3) the better way to prevent a general Balkan war is a partition of Bosnia coupled with a "red line" drawn at Kosovo and Macedonia, a strong warning to Serbia that aggression there, which would indeed engage vital American interests, would elicit a massive, Baghdad-like military response against Belgrade...
...M.I.T. $24 million to adopt Cohen's techniques. But the American effort has yet to emulate the most admirable aspect of the French effort: Cohen intends to donate his gene map to the United Nations as a gift to the world, thereby ensuring all scientists unrestricted access to the vital data. Cohen feels he owes this to the public because his work has been largely funded by public donations to a muscular-dystrophy telethon...
...These are issues that are of vital importance to Americans of all ages," Andrew Kohut, polling director for Lanes Mirror, told National Public Radio this summer. "And younger people don't have different points of view on these issues than older people...
...resolution, and no drafts are yet circulating. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has discussed with some U.N. members possible troop contributions to a force that might exceed 20,000. But he has had only perfunctory contacts with President Clinton's advisers, and no one seems to be discussing the vital question of rules of engagement -- that is, under what circumstances the peacekeepers could shoot. So the 25,000 U.S. and 12,000 other foreign troops remaining in Somalia may be stuck for weeks or months, and their duty remains hazardous. Last week Chief Warrant Officer Gus Axelson...
...some substance into the neutered agreements that came out of last June's Earth Summit. Gore has the opportunity to signal determination if he meets with Brundtland. If he were feeling sadistic he might quote from her Harvard commencement address last June, in which she spoke of the vital importance of international agreements, or recite the words of her report, Our Common Future, which cites American economic sanctions as a means of policing agreements on marine conservation. And he might pray that four years later, a successor will not appear to read back to him his own words...