Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action, , claims that Iceland is illegally killing whales for commercial use. Indeed, the International Whaling Commission has issued a ban on commercial whaling through 1990, but it permits the killing of whales for scientific purposes. The Iceland government insists that taking 120 whales this year for research is vital to its fishing industry. Most environmentalists, though critical of Iceland's stand, distanced themselves from Sea Shepherd's violent tactics...
...time when tobacco lobbies can credibly defend unrestricted smoking as a vital personal liberty is long past. Passage of a smoking ban in Cambridge will finally recognize the more fundamental rights of people not to be involuntarily poisoned. We hope it will set a standard for the nation to follow...
Certainly relations in the 1980s are vastly different from the 1950s. Despite frequent allegations of return to the Cold War, there is far more contact and cooperation now than 30 years ago. There is far greater awareness of each other's perceptions of vital interests and internal processes. It is highly plausible to expect further change in the relationship over the next 30 years and more...
...Still Life, Fish and Lemons, 1921, accentuates a lesson Matisse had learned from Manet: that black, far from signifying the absence of color, can read as a suave and powerful hue. Matisse's work, seen in this concentration, proves once more that in painting, innovation means nothing without a vital sense of the past. "I have simply wished to assert," he used to tell his students, echoing Courbet, "the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition...
...made him difficult to read. Last week, confronted by reports that members of the military were planning a coup, Ramos sternly warned "military adventurists" that such action could be "bloody and destabilizing." Declared the general, in his clearest show of support yet for Aquino's fragile government: "It's vital that we safeguard and enhance the gains of the February revolution...