Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that emanated from New Orleans in the early '80s. Bits of many cultures make up the local hybrid, including updated Latin, Italian and Oriental dishes. Grilling, influenced by Caribbean barbe, is an essential technique. Not-too-sweet, not-too-tart salsas, mojos and adobados based on local fruits are vital flavoring ingredients...
...Jewish woman told my brother something I think is absolutely vital for . black people to understand. It was a simple phrase: "Don't wait for people to love you." We are too preoccupied with whether white people love us or not, whether they are racist or not, what they think about the color of our skin or the texture of our hair. Who cares? We have to go forward and make our own opportunities...
...needs, if Saddam so chooses. By Washington's reckoning, Saddam has access to as much as $1 billion in foreign accounts. Baghdad is also believed to have $2 billion worth of stockpiled gold and an additional $1 billion worth looted from Kuwait's Central Bank. "Saddam has enough for vital imports at the moment, if he were to define vital imports as including food and medicine," says Patrick Clawson, an expert on the Iraqi economy and editor of the Philadelphia-based foreign-policy journal Orbis. "Instead, he's buying luxury goods for his immediate entourage, equipment for his security apparatus...
...ultimate hope, says Dr. Patrick Brookhouser of Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, is that people will realize "when you lose hearing you lose, to some degree, one of our most vital attributes, the ability to interact with our environment." In other words, Americans should be making the most noise about noise itself...
That relationship remains as useful and vital as it was 30 years ago. The trouble is, the French today are no longer in league with West Germany. Their chief partner is now a larger, unified country, raising some worst-case nightmares of an old nemesis reborn. The two times in modern history when Germans ventured to consolidate -- under Bismarck and under Hitler -- France was eclipsed and conquered. Apprehensions today do not envisage anything so dire as a panzer plunge through the Ardennes, but many French wince at the prospect of an expanded Federal Republic overmastering them with its money, industry...