Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simply being in the majority does not necessarily mean liberals must be apathetic. If they had some ultimate goal or higher good to be struggling toward, they might manage to still be active and vital--despite their near-total triumph on this delightful campus...
...second, political sense, the things we "tolerate" are vital aspects of our national character. As a pluralistic society, differences in ideology and lifestyle and unavoidable. In fact, the democratic style of government assumes that discourse between different opinions is valuable and essential to a just government...
...remains tormented, as factions within the world's largest computer maker (revenues: $63 billion) fight for its very soul. Just last week Robert Corrigan, 53, whom IBM watchers credit with turning around the company's vital personal-computer business, abruptly declared he would take early retirement next month. The announcement marked the second high-level departure in as many weeks. Earlier, Gerald Czarnecki resigned as the IBM executive in charge of slashing the company's bloated work force and unbuttoning its culture, amid reports that he had been proceeding too slowly to please his superiors...
Among the CDF's most vital parts are the fast electronics that sift through torrents of incoming data, instantaneously separating the mundane from the rare. "We're looking for needles in haystacks," observes University of Michigan physicist Myron Campbell, "and to find them, we have to process a haystack every second." During the last experimental run, for instance, a trillion collisions between protons and antiprotons occurred inside CDF's big particle trap. Yet of these, only 16 million were deemed promising enough by the detector's electronic gate-keepers to be worth more detailed analysis. Further winnowing occurred as banks...
...Bosnia is not a vital enough interest to warrant American intervention (as I believe), then we should stay out. The pretend intervention of putting ourselves under U.N. command leaves us with the worst of both worlds: devoid of initiative, yet committed to spasmodic engagement whenever the U.N. rouses itself to action...