Word: vitalizing
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...biggest challenge the U.S. faces on the immigration front is to ensure that these welcome differences are accompanied by a dedication to, or at least a healthy acceptance of, what unites Americans of every color and ethnic background: the host of values many still consider vital to the American character. Those values are embodied in such seminal documents as the Federalist papers and the Constitution. They presume active participation in the democratic political process, praised by Alexis de Tocqueville as the great educator and unifier. They include a respect for the rule of law, for the rights of others...
...pageant of American history has always looked rather different to the descendants of slaves than it does to descendants of slave owners. Not surprisingly, it also appears less than festive to the descendants of conquered natives, exploited migrant workers or Chinese railroad coolies. To them the vital history lesson is not the myth embodied in the Statue of Liberty but the reality of immigration laws that sharply restricted the chances of Hispanic and Asians. They value less the dazzling engineering feat of the transcontinental railroad than the abuse of laborers. They see the culture that shaped America...
Pasquarello said the work of the special response team was vital to the success of the police operation at the hideout...
...clinch the deal, De Klerk had to abandon demands for ironclad guarantees that whites and other minorities would share power indefinitely. He had sought a system in which whites would in effect have a permanent veto in such vital affairs of state as defense, foreign policy and the economy. But last week he gave up his insistence that the new coalition Cabinet could act only with a two-thirds vote. Instead the President will be required merely to consult the Cabinet in a "consensus-seeking" spirit...
CARTAGENA: This year's Miss Colombia pageant set tongues wagging over statistics other than the usual vital ones. The ruckus began with whispers that a contestant, Catherine Sanchez Hernandez, was secretly married and therefore ineligible. The current Miss Amazon issued a denial -- "I would never falsify my marital status because after all I am studying law" -- but resigned after the priest who performed her wedding ceremony appeared with certificate in hand. She was not studying law; she wasn't even from the Amazon region. In fact, only nine of the 25 contestants were born in the departments they represented...