Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trustee council seems to be considering three broad areas of spending: land purchases to protect vital habitats, scientific studies and some type of endowment that would invest the money and finance restoration from the interest. Environmentalists contend that putting too much into an endowment would prevent the state from tackling expensive but urgent projects. Scientific study, on the other hand, has strong support from the conservationists, who advocate such efforts as long-term monitoring of wildlife and assessments of which habitats should be purchased. There is some concern, however, about the council's judgment. It has been accused of rubber...
...fascinating category of complex glues they secrete known as extracellular matrix. Securing cells in their matrix are Velcro-like patches called cellular-adhesion molecules (CAMs), which are present on every cell except red blood cells. These cellular glues not only hold things together but also play a vital role in growth, fetal development, repair of damaged tissue and elimination of noxious invaders...
Another antiadhesion drug is being developed for the treatment of traumatic shock. Here too the goal is to prevent the body's own healing process from going awry. Traumatic shock can occur when accident victims lose large quantities of blood, causing cells in vital organs to starve for oxygen. The starving tissues trigger a distress signal that summons leukocytes and other members of the body's damage-control team, which begin to destroy distressed cells. Alas, if the signal stays on too long, cells are killed at a phenomenal rate and major organs begin to die even while hospital trauma...
...Services" window. The one woman left in front of me by the time I reached the window was visibly distressed. She had been going back and forth from her home and the police station (by foot of course) because she did not know her license plate number and other vital information...
...billion a year in business for the near future as the U.S. spends more on its armed forces than all its European allies combined. Unfortunately, military spending today has more to do with what politicians believe will win votes than what the nation really needs to protect its vital interests...