Word: vitalizing
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...odds of joining the flourishing ranks of lotto millionaires are still longer than the risk of being struck by lightning. About 90 million players will ring up $20.6 billion in ticket sales this year. So far, 34 states have joined the lottery gold rush, raking in vital revenues for depleted coffers. Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook, professors of public policy and economics at Duke University, challenge the games of chance as regressive, inefficient means of raising revenue and suggest they prey upon minorities and the poor. The professors also wonder whether the lotteries' get-rich-quick appeal undermines the American...
...cannot imagine the union without Ukraine," said Yeltsin and Gorbachev in an appeal to the Ukraine supreme council last week. Indeed, Ukraine's population of 52 million and its abundant agricultural and industrial resources make it vital to any regrouping of the republics. What is supposed to be one of the key organs of a new union, a reconstituted Soviet parliament, did begin meeting last week in Moscow. But only seven republics were represented, and less than half the 450-odd members bothered to show up. In any case, complained Rutskoi, in the Russian republic "we are building mountains...
Although the Free Speech Guidelines adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 13 and May 15, 1990, state that the "free interchange of idea is vital" for the University community, they fail to guarantee Harvard students and faculty the right to expression...
...startling to be believed." Indeed. But Hersh did come to believe it, and it is now surfacing in his book The Samson Option, being published this week by Random House. In capsule: among the American secrets stolen for Israel by convicted spy Jonathan Pollard was some of the most vital information the U.S. possessed: satellite pictures and data used to aim nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union. Some of this was relayed by Jerusalem to the Soviets. And the man who supposedly made the decision to do it and in person passed some of the data was none other than...
...them into the circular file. Probably nobody ever asked Joe Biden why a cute little number like him would want a career in politics. Chances are no officemate ever let his or her hand drift languorously over John C. Danforth's derriere or inquired as to Orrin Hatch's vital dimensions...