Word: vitalize
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With the end of the cold war, that threshold question was no longer vital. Absent a direct threat to American national security, foreign policy in general disappeared from U.S. political discourse. The past three presidential campaigns--1992, 1996 and 2000--may well have been the most devoid of foreign-policy discussion of any during the 20th century. It stood to reason. If the homeland was secure, if there was no deadly adversary stalking us, who cared what was going on out there...
...face as I made my case. Only later did a colleague point out the obvious; that with the exception of visits to the Royal Opera House, it was highly unlikely that the Prince had ever visited Soho and Covent Garden, much less wandered its streets picking up the vital signs of the new Britain. Had he done so, he would surely have noticed - as Andrew Sullivan recently put it - that "British society has morphed into a free-market melting pot of cultural brashness." Reverence for the magic of royalty? You might as well ask the British to stop eating chicken...
...Greek and Turkish leaders will rotate in the presidency every 10 months. Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders greeted the plan coolly but suggested it could serve as a basis for negotiations. A final deal will be put to a vote in two separate referendums in March. A settlement is vital for Cyprus to join the European Union by 2003. SPAIN Crisis Coast An oil tanker carrying 77,000 tons of fuel began to leak in rough seas 50 km off Galicia. As the Prestige drifted to within 5 km of the coast, 24 crew members were airlifted to safety...
Because the airlines would be fielding phone calls from worried family members, it is vital that this patient information be relayed back to them...
...unfortunate side effect of a focus on the land issue is that it allows other vital concerns, such as human rights violations, to be virtually ignored. While some Western governments have criticized Mugabe’s human rights record (48 political deaths in the three month run-up to the presidential election in March, of which 32 were opposition members or supporters), the Western press focuses almost exclusively on white farmers and the land reform question, ignoring the more significant issue of widespread political torture, rape and murder...