Word: vitalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tone of the debate. Thus, while effective in denying him or her the attention he or she craves, ignoring the antagonist often facilitates his or her goal by allowing such claims to monopolize the discourse. As such, in the absence of principled dialogue and where the discourse is vital, the destructive nature of the antagonist's speech act must be exposed...
...fire fight the first time it crashes a Serb roadblock or seizes artillery pieces from the Bosnian army. Once the peace is shattered and American forces begin taking casualties, voices will be raised in the U.S., loudly demanding answers: What makes Bosnia worth dying for? What vital national interest is involved? In fact, the questioning has already begun, as Congress sends signals to Clinton that it will fight him vigorously on any deployment in which...
...sometimes floundering efforts of official Washington demonstrate. The activist consensus of the cold war, which made every foot of turf on earth a prize to be won or lost, has evaporated. At the same time the venerable formula that U.S. forces are to be used to protect vital interests and key allies seems less than adequate to guide the country in a violent world of fluctuating priorities. Will America's $260 billion-a-year military machine be sent into action to fight only aggressors like North Korea, Iran or Iraq, as the Pentagon's conventional strategy suggests? Those...
Radcliffe has indeed taken an important step forward, as the headline of your editorial indicates. We need your help in reporting the direction of that step with accuracy. Radcliffe College is, and always will be, a vital and vibrant institution of higher learning. Barbars J. Nelson Vice President Radcliffe College
...interviews, individually and together. The CD package, the first of three, promises choice nuggets as well. "It won't be, as some feared, just a ragbag of rejects," says Ian MacDonald, author of Revolution in the Head, a close study of the group's music. "It'll be the vital concluding installment of the Beatles' story in sound. It'll sell squillions...