Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire beside a river in a valley. Its members had a language, a set of supernatural beliefs and a repertoire of legends about their ancestors. Eventually they forged primitive weapons and set off over the mountain, mumbling phrases that could be loosely translated as having something to do with "vital national interests" and "manifest destiny." When they reached the next valley, they massacred and enslaved some weaker band of people they found clustered around some smaller fire and thus became the world's first imperialists...
...When our vital interests are at stake, when there is a clear, sharply defined objective that is achievable at acceptable cost, and when you are sure you can build the support here at home. The gulf war is a good example of that. Especially when it can be done through multinational support. It's appropriate for us to support the airlift to Sarajevo. If we do get involved further there, it certainly ought to be through a U.N. aegis and not on our own, and we need to be very careful that we don't have a European Beirut...
Innuendos and bathroom humor aside, Cohen acknowledges that pregnancy and STDs are a serious matter. The growing rate of AIDS-related deaths has created a most vital purpose for Cohen's products...
Ever since, the term Oppo has conjured to many Democrats sinister images of muckraking and distortion. In fact, Oppo was a vital component of major local and national campaigns long before 1988. And practitioners in both major parties distinguish between "political pornography" and legitimate inquiry into public statements and actions that might bear on an opponent's fitness to hold office. Fred Malek, manager of the Bush campaign, says his campaign's research efforts are aimed at scanning old and current news stories and other public records and coding them into computers by topic, "so that we can pull...
...keep public pressure on to pass the aid bill. Nevertheless, in his first official summit, Yeltsin accomplished far more than anyone had predicted. If the new nuclear accord holds firm, bilateral arms negotiations, long the meat of East-West relations, are probably now complete, making Yeltsin seem absolutely vital to the promising new shape those relations are taking. In Washington the Gorbachev image is beginning to fade...