Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secretary of Defense, warned, "If you treat China as an enemy, China will become an enemy." A containment policy such as the one the U.S. used to hem in Moscow, says Perry, "could actually undermine our security, because a China that feels encircled is quite unlikely to cooperate on vital U.S. security interests. Containment could create those security problems. It could push China to accelerate its defense modernization, which would contribute to a regional arms race, increasing the likelihood of military conflict in hot spots like Taiwan, the Spratly Islands, the Korean peninsula...
Last year virtually every proposal to cut corporate welfare met a quiet death at the hands of the committees that pass on spending and tax legislation. What House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and his forces considered unjustifiable giveaways other Congressmen defended as vital to their districts. In the end, the 25 or so programs considered most egregious by critics from all sides--say, building logging roads for timber companies at government expense--saw their budgets nicked some $2.6 billion, or only 16%, says Stephen Moore, fiscal-policy director of the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute. And for all its denunciation...
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA is keeping a close watch on the space shuttle Atlantis because of a leak in a vital hydraulic system used to control wing flaps, brakes and landing gear. The space agency says the six astronauts on board are not in danger, but the shuttle's planned five-day docking with Russian space station Mir may have to be shortened. The problem developed when one of the three auxiliary power units began leaking hydraulic fluid immediately after liftoff. NASA rules stipulate that after achieving its objectives, a shuttle must return to earth as soon as possible...
...White House does have a campaign strategy, and not talking about it is part of the plan. Rule No. 1: Be presidential. Last year that meant playing the prudent, pragmatic grownup against the disruptive adolescence of Newt Gingrich. This year it means Clinton's projecting himself as a vigorous, vital, people-loving, curious, future-minded Not-Dole. Since the President won't get much cooperation from a Republican Congress, he will focus on other strategic alliances rather than push new programs that reek of Big Government--working with business leaders on TV standards, with Governors on welfare reform, with local...
...havens that many eastern Caribbean countries have become. The story simply reiterated what many of us islanders have long known: these islands are America's unprotected flank. Long-term neglect of their welfare, whether through budgetary restraints or through myopic, reactionary and isolationist policies, will only harm the most vital assets of the U.S., its people. ORVILLE RAWLINS Commerce, Texas