Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barber said that one of the vital characteristics of the bill was its vagueness...
...wizard who knew about the problem and was on the task: stairs, in two or three flights, with rust-proof hand rails on both sides. I would like to say he knows how many college students sleepily trudge up the hill after a movie in an effort to cut vital seconds off the time to the T station, perhaps the difference between a long empty train welcoming them home and shelling out the money...
...kept secret: Among the career options open to Harvard graduates, one of the most challenging and rewarding is public school teaching. It is high time that this word make it into the din that descends upon the campus each recruiting season. Hahn is absolutely correct--no profession is more vital to the health of a society than teaching, yet the complacent response he gets in announcing his career plans accurately portrays the pathetic short-sightedness of a society that takes quality education for granted while being unwilling to make the necessary human and monetary investments to secure its future. Harvard...
...scenario then is predictable and crushing: Currency traders will take one look at the over-valued rupiah and exchange rupiah for U.S. dollars. "By pegging the rupiah," explains Baumohl, "Indonesia has promised to buy those rupiah with U.S. dollars--at the inflated price." Indonesia's reserves of foreign currency, vital to a nation's economic health, will quickly shrink. And traders, smelling more trouble, will dump even more rupiah, guaranteeing an economic meltdown. "In no time," says Baumohl, "the Indonesian government is bankrupt, and the economy collapses...
...writing in response to Marian Schlesinger's letter (Feb. 2) concerning the proposed Center for Government and International Studies, and to explain why the Faculty of Arts and Sciences regards this project, and its proposed location, as vital to the education of our students and to the scholarly work of the faculty. Some of these issues were very helpfully addressed in The Crimson's recent editorial on this subject...