Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This vision of the female writer struggling to escape the prison of her soul is one of the dominant motifs of R.W.B Lewis's often masterful biography of Edith Wharton. Meticulously researched and infinitely detailed, Lewis's Edith Wharton depicts its subject as a vital and complex woman, haunted throughout her life by a dismally unsuccessful marriage, but taking her place nevertheless as one of the leading literary figures...
...main, Kissinger believes, détente has served the U.S. well. The U.S., he feels, has not given up anything vital to the Russians. Washington, his argument goes, has extracted from the Kremlin all that can reasonably be expected as a result of détente. More pressure might cause Moscow to reject détente entirely, just as it rejected a Soviet-American trade agreement earlier this year, when Congress insisted, as part of the package, that more Soviet Jews be allowed to emigrate. Indeed, Kissinger concludes, détente may have been oversold in the U.S. It is not a panacea...
...what had been the second richest nation in black Africa (after Nigeria) is in ruins. In 1974 Angola was the world's fourth largest coffee producer (earnings: $231 million) and fifth largest source of diamonds (nearly $100 million). Its iron ore mines brought in $38 million; and the vital east-west Benguela Railway, which carried most of Zambia's and Zaïre's copper ore to the sea, brought in $1 million a week in transit revenues. Because of the fighting and the flight of white settlers, the railroad is closed. So are the iron mines...
...involving Israel, it is basically pro-Western in foreign policy and open toward European and American investments. Since 1973 Hassan has emulated his oil-rich Arab allies by pushing up the price of phosphate rock from $14 to $68 a ton. Morocco controls 60% of world trade in the vital fertilizer ingredient even without the Sahara deposits, and the price increase last year meant an added $1 billion to a booming economy...
...responsibility that the federal government should share. For years now urban residents have been paying federal taxes to support farmers with billions of dollars in federal subsidies--including money to landed gentry not to grow crops. As regional economic interdependence in the U.S. becomes even more complex it is vital that the federal government give aid to this country's cities. New York deserves this aid immediately...