Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was even a sign of possible progress on what has been one of the most intractable of all Middle East issues: the Golan Heights. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had insisted that the area was so vital to Israel's security that Jerusalem could never give the tiniest bit back to Syria. But his successor, Yitzhak Rabin, says the principle of trading land for peace applies to the area, and Israel need not "cling to every single centimeter...
...corollary of the new reality is that America is now free to decide for itself what interests it considers vital enough to shed blood for. And even if it misreads risks and stumbles into some crises, its mistakes are no longer likely to lead to a nuclear Armageddon...
...purpose. The crisis turned an often hedonistic male subculture of bar hopping, promiscuity and abundant "recreational" drugs -- an endless party centered on the young and the restless -- into a true community, rich in social services and political lobbies, in volunteerism and civic spirit. It made civil rights issues suddenly vital to young middle-class men who had not previously expected to seek help from the government. It awakened many gay men, sick or well, to spiritual values. It partly bridged a widespread gap between gay men and lesbians, a chasm based on arcane feminist dialectics or simple lack of shared...
...resistance training, athletes focus on the muscle groups now recognized as vital to their sport. Grinko's rowers are spending one day a week concentrating exclusively on arms, another day on legs and a third on the back. Swimmers are working on building up their arms because about 80% of their propulsion through the water comes from the arms' movement. Cyclists now give more attention to their hamstrings, a group of muscles in the back of the thigh. "The hamstrings stabilize the knee and transfer mechanical energy between the joints," explains biomechanist Robert Gregor of the University of California...
Since top athletes constantly go for broke and wind up straining or injuring themselves, physical therapy has become a vital part of training science. Kinesiologist Linda Huey of Santa Monica, Calif., devised a water exercise program to help keep long jumper Powell in shape after he had an emergency appendectomy just six weeks before the Olympic trials in 1988. "On land, he could not have trained," explains Huey...