Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glittering cast of characters includes a disgruntled Iraqi administration and the vital members of the White House gang. Davis also offers the twist of using the real-life figures of political life that we've come to know and revile. This allows us the comic relief of seeing our fine Arkansan leader in unguarded moments: "That's bullshit!" or "He's going to start World War III!" Or fair Saddam's familial side, "slapping his son-in-law on the back." What...
...cultural values of the past which form a vital part of a liberal education are not only on the printed page," says Daniel D. Reiff '63, a professor of art history at the State University of New York at Fredonia...
...Board is not a bunch of teetotalers," says Mobley. "We do have a vital interest in keeping everyone safe until they grow...
...Harvard students have long been able to make operational decisions about service programs, and such grass-roots initiative helps to keep the programs vital. The autonomy of student organizations in such decisions will be nurtured and respected in the future as in the past, to the extent permitted by basic concerns for the safety of all participants and sound financial practices...
Without oxygen to aerate tissues and make vital structural components like collagen, notes Knoll, animals simply cannot grow large. But for most of earth's history, the production of oxygen through photosynthesis - the metabolic alchemy that allowed primordial algae to turn carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into energy - was almost perfectly balanced by oxygen-depleting processes, especially organic decay. Indeed, the vast populations of algae that smothered the Precambrian oceans generated tons of vegetative debris, and as bacteria decomposed this slimy detritus, they performed photosynthesis in reverse, consuming oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that traps heat...