Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preventing flag burning is not a vital problem for the nation, preventing constitutional amendments to the First Amendment still is. Not that the Court has ever interpreted the First Amendment as absolute--it has, for instance, upheld laws proscribing seditious libel and speech that represents a "clear and present danger...
Armed with volumes of microfiche and microfilm, Pankau's investigators conduct financial probes that would make privacy advocates cringe. They use vehicle-registration lists purchased from the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as vital statistics culled from Texas' 254 county courthouses. The most telltale documents are often probate records and property transfers. Pankau exposed a Dallas land developer after he shifted most of his millions into his four children's trusts, filed for bankruptcy and proceeded to live off the charity of his offspring. A Houston real estate promoter who had a series of big bank loans coming due handed...
...wrote about thermonuclear missiles -- their enormous destructive power, their relatively low cost, the difficulty of defending against them. I wrote about the crimes of Stalinism and the need to expose them fully and the vital importance of freedom of opinion and democracy. I stressed the value of progress but warned that it must be scientifically managed and not left to chance. I outlined a program for mankind's future; my vision was somewhat Utopian, but I remain convinced that the exercise was worthwhile...
...writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was also included in many of these attacks. The vital truths expressed in his extraordinary literary works and keen polemics had made him the object of virulent party and KGB hatred for several years; now there were claims that I alone, or the two of us, were engaged in a slanderous assault on Soviet society and its guarantees of work, free medical care and an unrivaled educational system. The main charge was that we were enemies of detente, working against peace...
...fact, Dienstbier said the United States must play a vital role in reconstructing the Eastern European and Soviet economies. He said the United States, which rebuilt post-war Western Europe with the Marshall Plan, should now help the both the burgeoning democracies in the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union...