Word: vitalize
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...notebooks are vital to understanding Graham's outlook on life. His half brother Phil married Katharine Meyer, whose father owned the Washington Post, and the couple were at the epicenter of the Washington social whirl of the 1960s. But at 49, Phil, a manic-depressive, killed himself. Bob Graham was 27 at the time. "Phil's legend was both inspiring and intimidating," says a person who knows Graham well and asks to remain anonymous. "After you see your brother commit suicide, one of the things you seek is control. No wild behavior, no profanity, no risk, loudness or recklessness...
Many questions remain. For one thing, researchers are worried that gamma secretase may perform vital functions in the brain and that blocking it could cause serious side effects. Also, no one knows whether strategies aimed at lowering levels of beta amyloid will have any impact on the course of Alzheimer's disease--though if the beta-amyloid hypothesis is right, they should. Selkoe and other Amyloid People now see the disease process as a biochemical cascade; the event that triggers the cascade, they believe, is the accumulation of beta amyloid...
...formally include students on the search committee. These students, entrusted with the formidable task of representing their peers, could accurately bring student concerns to the discussion table in a way no Board member alone ever could. The same applies to faculty and staff members, who have an equally vital interest in Harvard's future direction...
Beyond that, knowing the code for a gene doesn't mean you know what protein it produces in the body, or what that protein does, or how it interacts with other proteins--vital information if you want to know how the genetic code locked in our cells ends up constructing and maintaining a fully functioning human being...
...wasn't for democracy that we sent our troops to war in the Gulf in 1991. We sent them into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to protect the vital interests of the U.S. and its allies - the oil reserves that Saddam Hussein would've controlled if he hadn't been ejected from Kuwait and stopped from invading Saudi Arabia. This was a valid and vital projection of the national interest, even if it meant shoring up Saudi and Kuwaiti regimes that would hardly be deemed democratic by U.S. standards...