Word: vitalizing
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PROPOSITION 99 WAS A VITAL PART OF CALIFORNIA'S ATtempt to discourage smoking. Passed by health-conscious voters in 1988, the measure hiked cigarette taxes 25 cents a pack. A share of those revenues was earmarked for an antitobacco advertising campaign. The resulting ads won international acclaim and were credited with a 17% decline in the number of smokers in the state. But in January Governor Pete Wilson suspended the $16 million-dollar advertising campaign, citing a need for funds for other health projects. Last week a California state judge ordered Wilson to restore the campaign, saying that Proposition...
...nexus of the most dramatic changes in postwar Europe. "The tensions between East and West swirl around you here with a power that one has difficulty imagining anywhere else," he says. James Wilde, who opened our Istanbul bureau in January, is positioned to monitor Turkey's increasingly vital strategic role in Europe and the Persian Gulf, as well as its relationships with the emerging Islamic republics...
...Crimson repeatedly represents our organizations in a negative and inaccurate way which denigrates our endeavors to educate the Harvard community about issues that are of vital concern to our ethnicities. In a 17 December, 1991 issue of the Crimson, the editors of The Crimson included a blow-up quote in Richard Primus' editorial ("Zionism Isn't Racism," 17 December, 1991) that incorrectly stated that the Society of Arab Students told Primus that they "weren't interested in promoting a productive discourse about the Arab-Israeli conflict." Two days later, only after several people had complained to The Crimson about...
MOORE: It's sort of an intangiblething--just making stuff that's really vital,that gives a nice I.V. injection of life back intopeople. That's an accomplishment, if you can dothat. If I can look back in 10 years and say,well, may be that's dated, but still, all thisstuff gave life...
...Terrible Trades" of the past 30 years, the author covers a lot of ground. Separate essays discuss beanballs, pitchers ruined by choking in the clutch, team dissension as a motivating factor and revolving-door general managers. In addition, Shlain devotes six chapter to "The Manager's Game," surely a vital aspect but by no means 40 percent of baseball...