Word: vitalize
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When the press runs a story the White House claims is harmful to security, the word disloyalty inevitably creeps into the conversation. The line between dissent and disloyalty, between harmful revelations and vital ones, is murky. Often we never really know. But I would argue that the judicious questioning of the conduct and morality of war is the furthest thing from disloyalty: it is an expression of deep patriotism and the essence of responsible citizenship...
...answer, a retooled version of a 15-year-old emergency relief reserve, now called the Central Emergency Response Fund (cerf). Until a few months ago, U.N. agencies had to apply for funding allocation on a case-by-case basis, a bureaucratic process that often slowed the delivery of vital aid until starving kids filled television screens. (Benn likens it to a fire service forced to pass around a hat before responding to an alarm.) From this year, the cerf can be accessed within three days, most of the money is to be given as grants and not loans...
...Kissinger says Elkann has all the tools to become a formidable leader. "He is extremely intelligent and has a great sense of responsibility," Kissinger told Time. "I've seen, in the past few years, he has managed several crises with extreme dignity and wisdom." Such leadership is vital in a dynasty with a Kennedyesque whiff of tragedy. The originally anointed successor to Gianni Agnelli was Umberto's eldest son, Giovanni Alberto, who died rather suddenly from fast-spreading stomach cancer in 1997 at 33. Gianni's only son, Edoardo, who battled depression and did not partake in the family business...
...trained crews and decisive admirals. Ultimately, though, it was the man or the men at the top--those steering the nation through war and peace--who had to understand the great influence that navies could exert on international politics. Sea power, if properly applied by such leaders, was the vital tool for any country aspiring to play on the world stage...
...book also reports that the FBI teamed up with First Data Corp., the company that owns Western Union. That alliance provided Israel with vital information about Palestinian terrorists...