Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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T.M.U. succeeds in paring away all but the essentials to come up with an education that is truly useful. In comparative literature, you learn how to make vital literary connections. "In the beginning there was the Old Testament, which is just like the New Testament because both of them are part of the Bible, which was written in verse just like the Odyssey, which is exactly the same as Ulysses, which is real long just like Gone with the Wind...
...treasure-house of vital American music, no company is more valuable than CBS Records. Its labels, among them Columbia and Epic, have borne titles ranging from Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. to Michael Jackson's Thriller, from Frank Sinatra's Stormy Weather to Benny Goodman's Night and Day. But now this repository of Americana is passing into foreign stewardship. In the largest-ever Japanese purchase of a U.S. company, CBS agreed last week to sell its record business to Sony for $2 billion...
...light and durable fiber, carbon-carbon, used to improve the accuracy of intercontinental ballistic missiles. When the U.S. learned of the case, officials rushed to halt the deal. Though most of the order had already been filled, U.S. authorities prevailed on the British government to stop shipment of the vital heating elements that the Soviets would need to operate at least some of the equipment properly. When informed of the fiasco, the Thatcher government ordered the heating elements destroyed...
...McVey case highlights the problem of protecting secrets in an open society. The free exchange of information is vital to continued progress in fast-changing fields like computers and lasers. But such openness provides the Soviets with valuable opportunities. For years, the large Soviet consulate in San Francisco has served as an intelligence center from which Moscow monitors Silicon Valley. Soviet agents routinely intercept scientists' telephone calls, sift through unclassified technical publications and, on occasion, plant moles in U.S. industries. For the most part, however, the transfer of technology takes place along quasi-normal lines: through firms in Europe, Japan...
...through. By limiting the number of restricted items, the U.S. could insist on tighter enforcement and higher penalties for violators than under the present system of comprehensive controls. "Higher walls around fewer items" has become a rallying cry for businessmen and Government officials searching for ways to protect truly vital technology without relying on blanket controls...