Word: vitalizing
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...that many of the subjects in Africa, and elsewhere in the Third World, are unfamiliar with the ways of Western medicine and may not fully comprehend the risks of participating. Explains Dr. David Heymann, chief of the research office at the WHO Global Program on AIDS: "It is vital that African volunteers understand that they are getting an experimental product that might not work." Without such "informed consent," doctors cannot in good conscience carry out their research, and may face charges that they are using people as guinea pigs. "The problem," concluded a report from last month's meeting...
...those days Henry Kissinger was not only Secretary of State but also National Security Adviser. Ford did not like the double duty for Kissinger. He did like Scowcroft. As President, Ford in 1975 gave Scowcroft the NSC title and turned the self- effacing general into a recognized player in vital deliberations. And when Bush moved into the Oval Office, he put Scowcroft back in the job Ford had given him 13 years earlier...
...There's a whole process of education that acts as a backdrop to the ultimate act of voting," he says, speaking of those vital Congressional floor votes that decide each issue's outcome...
...speech last week, the King did not bow so far, but he did make a plea for reconciliation. Mending bridges with the Saudis is vital for Jordan's shattered economy: in addition to cutting off aid, which amounted to $200 million last year, Riyadh has refused to resume preferential oil sales to Jordan.The U.S. will press the Saudis to be lenient toward the King lest he be toppled. Despite everything, Washington prefers Hussein to the more radical regime that might replace...
...Middle East was too vital to American strategic and economic interests to allow a ruthless dictator to run roughshod through the region. The U.S. had to stop Saddam. We had to prevent him from gaining a stranglehold on the region's oil supplies. We had to eliminate his power to trigger devastating chemical or even nuclear wars. Most important, we had to send a clear message to Saddam and to future Saddams that wanton aggression in the Middle East would be met forcefully...