Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into Central America. In the past, as much as 75 percent of the economic aid sent to Central American "democracies" has been used for military purposes. Guatemala, for example, has used our economic aid to further its genocide of the indigenous Indian population. And U.S. economic aid plays a vital role in bolstering the El Salvadoran military, its death squads, and its bombings of peasant villages in the northern part of the country. Lest we forget, much of the "humanitarian" aid sent to the contras has never been accounted...
...older generation owe to young people not the fulfillment of dreams but honesty. We must help younger people to understand why it is vital to keep memories alive. We want to help them to accept historical truth soberly, not one-sidedly, without taking refuge in utopian doctrines, but also without moral arrogance. From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we must not imagine that we are quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger...
Perhaps with the return of the Brothers Gibb, America will be able to face the horror that lives in its very midst. Disco cannot be denied. Let's lay our records on the table and call the music what it should be called. Let us recognize that disco, so vital a part of our historical and musical heritage, is not dead...
...York City gave Nehemiah 30 blocks of vacant land to build on. Equally % important, the city agreed to provide each home buyer with a $10,000 interest- free second mortgage, repayable only when the house is resold. A vital ingredient in many private housing initiatives, the second mortgage can bridge the gap between the price of a home and the amount of a first mortgage that a low-income family can afford. For the Joneses, this interest-free loan, coupled with a below-market- rate first mortgage from New York State, reduced the monthly cost of their house to just...
...Assisted in that sudden release and encouraged to learn English by British Poet-Journalist James Fenton, whom he had met in Phnom Penh, the author, now 29, gets it all down with a straightforward vividness that chills the bones. / His portrait of Cambodia lost would in any circumstances be vital anthropology; in the light of what came after, however, it also assumes the weight of almost unbearable elegy...