Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creation of a fresh European security order. For Americans, there was the added challenge of defending the primacy of NATO, the main institution that channels U.S. political influence into the councils of Europe. As Baker made his rounds, President Bush articulated his vision succinctly: "NATO will continue to be vital to America's place in Europe...
...lyrics and limericks may expand or debase the language. And if X-rated pop adheres to writer Theodore Sturgeon's useful rule that "90% of everything is crud," most of it may be awful -- just dirty, not funny or erotic. But even at its grossest, the form is a vital expression of the resentments felt by a lot of people. Get used to it, America: we live in a four-letter world...
...coveted by racers have great appeal to leisure-time cyclists too. Firms like Avocet of Menlo Park, Calif., market a variety of "cyclometers" that measure and record speed, distance and even altitude. Whether gearing up for a race or trying to lose weight, cyclists always like to know their vital statistics...
...University has for the department. Afro-American Studies has been cast aside as a relic of political activism and radicalism. It is treated more as an annoyance than as a meaningful contributor to Harvard. In such an atmosphere there is no real opportunity to receive a meaningful and vital education. At Harvard, it seemed to me, there was no hope, nor any future in Afro-American Studies...
...Fernando, my alma mater, is fairly typical of the sprawling L.A. Unified School District, the nation's second largest. And typically, it is in deep trouble. Despite vigorous efforts by a strongly committed core of teachers and administrators, the school's vital indicators are startlingly bleak. The yearly 20% dropout rate is more than double the California average, and a quarter of the student body is absent on any given day. In reading and math, San Fernando seniors rank in the bottom 5% statewide...