Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that under the new system, he would not have been able to do many things he once did at Adams, where he organized a house reading series called "Night People," and learned to use the Bow and Arrow Press. Before partial randomization, Kevin says, Adams House was "a more vital place. It makes sense that Seamus [Heaney] is in Adams House. It wouldn't make any sense for him to be in Kirkland. And it's no accident that Master Kiely was in the English Department. There was support of the arts. You got to pick your own niche...
Dudley "is as vital to the lives of graduate students as the house system is to undergraduates at the College," says third-year music student Kathryn J. Welter, president of the Graduate Student Council...
...breed of young boys will lack this vital entre‚ into the female world. Offering a stick of ossified gum will no longer spark intergender friendships. Sure, boys can always substitute Bazooka (owned, incidentally, by Topps) or Trident, but it won't be the same. It will lack the cultural connotations, the comforting affiliation with the national pastime...
...short on both coherent programs and resources of leadership to approach the problems. An elaborate rhetorical porch, with gorgeous traditional columns, fronts an empty house. In any case, Presidents, Vice Presidents and other public officials are elected to lead and act first of all. Moral leadership and vision are vital, but somehow the right to deliver sermons has to be convincingly earned...
...proposed sale exposes the vagueness of U.S. policy on selling sensitive defense firms to international competitors and the absence of guidelines to determine which U.S. firms are vital to national security. Augustine hopes to make the LTV sale a test case in clarifying the issues. "If we can't have a level playing field with foreign firms," he says, "the least we can hope is that somebody turns on the lights...