Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election is distressingly quiet. But beneath the veneer of a routine campaign--one with no live, city-wide issues, one in which no top candidates have spoken out too loudly on anything, and one in which the incumbents are highly favored to retain their seats--Harvard University has a vital interest...
First, opponents of NSA claim that the Association is viewed by the public as a lobby group for a monolithic student opinion that does not really exist. But there is on many vital issues a majority consensus among American students that can be valuably asserted. As a safeguard against false unanimity, though, NSA has provided that should a college disagree with majority resolutions, it can register a written vote of dissent; Harvard can go on record as disagreeing with any actions of NSA it finds noxious...
With different enzymes from different bacterial cells, Kornberg used methods outwardly similar to Ochoa's in synthesizing a form of DNA in 1957. Chemically and physically, it behaves like a natural DNA; whether it contains a vital spark is not yet known...
...days of renewed steel production before normal deliveries are resumed. Says Robert V. Tishman, executive vice president of Tishman Realty & Construction Co.: "With very few exceptions, all construction jobs in the initial stages, where steel is a big factor, have been stopped." The strike slowed construction of vital defense projects, such as the Air Force's new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launching base at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, threatened Atlas ICBM deliveries. Military projects need steel so badly that the Commerce Department has notified steelmakers that top priority must be given to missiles, missile-launching sites...
Before this summer's resolution the Congress had simply "encouraged its members to inform themselves on nuclear bomb testing as a subject of vital concern to the educated student." But the Twelfth Congress made a specific, though moderate, stand on the testing issue by expressing 'its confidence in the resolution of the ISC concerning 'a definite agreement on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests.'" USNSA (at the 8th ISC at Lima, Peru) backed that resolution in order to block a counterproposal by three Communist-dominated student unions to censure only the United States for continuing tests...