Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athletic life. A French magazine called Vital (pronounced Veet-al) is full of terms such as le rafting and le trekking. The Germans go in for das Joggen, while Italians turn to il body building...
Perhaps the most vital ingredient in Boeing's success is its willingness to bet billions of dollars, and sometimes the whole company, on new types of planes. In the late 1960s, Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...
...time, the 71-year-old Senator will not be facing a far-right opponent; Zschau, 46, portrays himself as a fiscal conservative but social moderate. The Congressman's political polish, his relative youth and particularly his powerful fund-raising abilities (he expects to spend another $10 million) will be vital assets against a still popular incumbent who hopes to raise more than $8 million for the November contest...
...Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The centers, in turn, seemed uncertain about their relation to one another. At the same time, the private contractors supplying and supervising the assembly of the shuttle's vital hardware often fell behind in their deliveries and succumbed to the pressures to produce, even if testing and quality suffered...
...operations were needed because massive radiation destroys vulnerable bone-marrow tissue. The vital substance acts as the body's production center for blood cells that carry oxygen, help to cause clotting and provide immunity against disease. Victims of damaged marrow can die within weeks of severe anemia, hemorrhaging and infection. To transplant the tissue, physicians use a syringe to draw out healthy marrow--usually from a donor's hipbone--and inject it into the patient's bloodstream. The marrow cells make their way naturally to the interior regions of bones. For the procedure to succeed, the tissue of the donor...