Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solid back with a rifle shot, Belisle is developing into a vital weapon on penalty corners, helping to fill some of the void left by last year's Ivy League Player of Year Sandra Whyte...
...recognizing the vital importance of law and order (at least to his popularity), the executive leaves spending on prisons and police virtually unscathed. In fact, he boasts that he has built the most prisons in the nation's history and will continue...
...long-fought battle to free Soviet Jewry has been won, thanks to both international pressure and internal Soviet reform. But the new challenge--to provide homes and jobs for Jewish immigrants to Israel--is just as vital. As both Israel's ally and as an international guarantor of human rights, the U.S. has a moral obligation to recognize and aid the noble Israeli effort. The aid cannot wait until next year. It can't wait 120 days. Soviet immigrants need roofs over their heads...
This week the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to deploy the first satellite in the Mission to Planet Earth, an ambitious, long-range program to monitor the planet's pulse. This particular satellite carries four instruments to gather information about the atmosphere's vital ozone layer. The most important goal is to measure how badly this fragile band, which protects the earth from the harmful ultraviolet rays in sunlight, is being depleted by the industrial chemicals known as CFCs...
...that date, the 1,450 youngsters returned for the third year of an experimental program that adds 40 extra days to the usual 180-day school year. They were breaking a long-standing American tradition of summer vacations -- dating back to a time when family labor was vital to the late-summer harvest -- that give the U.S. one of the shortest school years in the industrialized world. There is surely a connection, a growing number of reformers argue, between that distinction and the dismal academic performances of American students, compared with their peers elsewhere...