Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marines began rehearsing an emergency evacuation of all American citizens from Haiti, but in Washington the invasion scenarios faded -- for now. Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, cautioned against military action, saying Haiti, though clearly important, was not a "vital" American interest. Meanwhile, 104 human-rights monitors were expelled by Haiti's military regime for allegedly disrupting security on the island, and U.S. embassy officials investigating reports of a massacre found the remains of 12 men in shallow graves just outside Port-au-Prince...
...whether the child's problems can be linked to some specific experience or time or whether they have been present almost from birth. "You don't suddenly get ADD," says Wade Horn, a child psychologist and former executive director of CHADD. Taking a careful history is therefore vital...
...glove that defense lawyer Shapiro wanted ruled out of bounds. Shapiro argued that it had been collected during a search without a warrant. According to the exclusionary rule, which enforces the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unlawful searches and seizures, illegally procured evidence cannot be admitted at trial, however vital it may be to proving guilt. Thus for two days, the hearing turned itself inside out as investigating detectives found themselves having to explain their own actions rather than Simpson...
Daniels concluded his speech by hailing "ourability to sift through" the glut of informationas "absolutely vital...
...share of the lucrative international market in arms has been increasing--first the Israelis, then alternately Iran and Iraq, now the Saudis and Kuwaitis. But for China and Russia, every sale is a vital boost to a precariously balanced economy. Silkworms and SCUDs don't' just pay workers like patriot missiles and F-15 Eagles do in the U.S.; they also keep the governments of those vast nations in power...