Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hialeah, Fla., devotees of the Santeria religion are outraged by a 1987 public ordinance prohibiting animal sacrifice, a practice which is vital to the Santeria rituals. After several years of legal battles in the lower courts, the santerias' case against the city finally reached the Supreme Court last Wednesday...
...French are more willing than Americans to put their money where their values are, largely because they have a heightened sense of their children as conservators of their family traditions and culture. Parents are rewarded for making so vital a contribution to society. "In the U.S., we view children as a strictly private good," says Betty Duskin, a senior economist at the Paris- based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. "In France, they consider children a part of public responsibility...
...important part of Clinton's promise lies in his ability to build a political coalition. While it's become fashionable to trash politics and politicians, we shouldn't forget that these are the vital means to our ends. Dukakis may have made a decent president, but we'll never know because he was an atrocious politician, uncomfortable in any matters that dealt with his own character...
...other characters include the banker's daughter, a student whose delving into family history prompts her elders to do the same, and four men who appear vital to these women's lives but who are one by one sloughed off. Wasserstein is interested in serious issues; the sisters are assimilated Jews who only slowly reawaken to the importance of their culture and religion, while on the periphery the men debate a host of topics from current headlines. But in form and uproarious dialogue the play is a commercial comedy. On that level, Sisters is a delight and is exquisitely performed...
...British regiment scheduled for deployment next month to protect aid convoys; a reconnaissance group was pinned down by cross fire there on Tuesday. Shelling in Kiseljak, directly under the flight approach to Sarajevo, was so fierce by Wednesday that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees halted its vital airlift to the capital, then gingerly started up again the next...