Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asserts that "those who might fall out of the coalition, either because of the impact on their public of the damage being inflicted on Iraq by the air campaign or because they want to pursue a diplomatic solution that falls short of our war aims, are not vital to the military campaign." Maybe, but some of the staunchest U.S. allies do not want to take any chances. "We quite frankly underestimated the support for Saddam in the Arab street," says a Saudi minister. "If we don't move to cut that off as quickly as we can, the postwar peace...
...continued and intensified air war. The likely meaning: the aim of all the assaults would be to draw the Iraqis out from their fortifications and into a war of maneuver. Iraqis are not considered good at such fighting, and, more important, they would be doing it without vital air cover. Frontal attacks, where they occurred, would be preceded by heavy aerial bombardment and would be aimed at piercing holes in the lines, which the Iraqis would have to try to seal off by counterattack. That would require them to come out into the open and expose themselves to pitiless bombing...
...plan must contain two strands: increased domestic energy production and more efficient consumption. The President is ^ tugging at the production strand. Congress appears to be groping toward the other. The question is whether they can weave them together and give the country the leadership it urgently needs on this vital issue...
...proposed treatment, a synthetic version of an uncommon fungus known as fumagillin, has already shown evidence of halting cancerous lumps before they can send fatal offshoots to nearby lymph nodes or other vital organs. Laboratory animals subjected to this drug suffered from no harmful side effects associated with most common cancer treatments such as radiation therapy...
...That's very dangerous," Folkman says. "That's when the tumor can grow exponentially." Even more importantly, he says, the newly-recruited blood vessels allow the tumor to send out offshoots known as metastases, which travel through the circulatory system until they lodge in vital organs such as lymph nodes, the lungs, brain or sexual organs...