Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apparently realizing that he had underestimated Western reaction, Hussein distanced himself from Saddam last week. He stressed that Jordan recognized the ousted government of Kuwait and signed on to U.N. sanctions that will close a vital Iraqi overland route to Jordan's port of Aqaba. He even went so far as to call the escalation toward confrontation the "most dangerous crisis ((the region)) has ever faced," though he still declined to take a position on last week's summit resolution...
...fighting forces into the field and supplying their gargantuan needs. When the U.S. decided last week to draw "a line in the sand" of the Arabian Peninsula, it took on an immense logistical task. Keeping troops supplied with water in the desert's 120 degrees heat will be as vital as keeping them supplied with ammunition...
...most serious problems are in the West, where poor water- management practices, rampant growth and extreme drought have hurt both people and vital ecosystems. In cities and towns, water scarcity means quick showers, brown lawns and dirty cars. But the real economic burden falls on farmers, who use between 80% and 90% of the water available in the Far West. While cities can easily absorb drought-related water-price increases, many farmers are being driven out of business by their water bills...
...themselves. The Nixon Doctrine of 1969 deputized friendly regional strongmen, notably the Shah of Iran, to protect the neighborhood against Soviet aggression. Ten years later, the fall of the Shah and the Kremlin's invasion of Afghanistan prompted the Carter Doctrine: Soviet encroachments would be considered an attack on vital American interests...
...rehash of the antiquity venerated by neoclassicists a century before. Provincial antiquity seemed less mined out and more alive than mainstream classicism. Thus in Italy -- Massimo Campigli's painting, for instance, or Marino Marini's sculpture -- the % emphasis shifted from Roman marbles and Greek urns to the rougher, more vital- looking frescoes and terra-cottas of the Etruscans. The idea was to recapture a sense of antiquity that connoted a spirit of place, an Arcadian flavor, more Hesiodic than Augustan...