Word: vitalizing
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First, though, some vital preliminary work was undertaken. "Before we could make rational arguments, especially about the fear of communism," explains Satarov, "we had to deal with emotions." Yeltsin's approval rating was barely 5% in January. "We needed to awaken the lion by ending the President's invisibility," says Satarov. "We had to present him as a vigorous, active leader who has got the message and is trying his best." So Yeltsin, who at 65 has lived eight years longer than the average Russian male, went on a strict diet, lost 25 lbs., cut his intake of vodka...
...product piracy, President Clinton said Monday that he planned to renew China's trade status as a Most Favored Nation. Extending MFN trade benefits is not a reward for good behavior, said the President, but the only pragmatic solution given Beijing's growing military and economic strength in Asia. Vital security and economic interests make it essential for the U.S. to maintain a relationship with China and its booming market, Clinton said in a speech to the Pacific Basin Economic Council, an Asian trade group...
...lost in the middle-class suburbs and ethnic enclaves of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey. Holding those precincts means winning over independent voters who went for Bush in 1988 and Clinton in 1992 and delivered the House of Representatives to Gingrich in 1994. Whether a Midwesterner is vital isn't yet certain. But in general terms, young is preferable to old, Catholic is better than Protestant, and pro-life beats pro-choice. Which helps explain why some hopefuls are more hopeful than others. We assess their prospects...
...shutdown during the budget talks, a move from which the party has yet to recover. Outgoing, Catholic and an excellent campaigner, Engler avoided the draft because he was categorized I-Y for being 2 lbs. overweight in one exam and 10 lbs. in another. Even so, Michigan remains so vital to Dole that he recently auditioned Engler; the Senator and the Governor made joint TV appearances, conveyed by satellite so that Dole could rate Engler's performance...
There are some, however, who might question the worth of his inheritance. The revivalist, traditionalist branch of American Christianity that Billy Graham led from the obscurity in which it had languished roughly since the 1925 Monkey Trial is now the most vital and aggressive spiritual force on the national landscape. A 4,000-respondent poll by the University of Akron lists Evangelical Protestant as the most common religious self-identification in the U.S. (26%), followed by Catholic (23%) and mainline Protestant (17%). Beliefs closely associated with Evangelicalism--that salvation comes only through faith in Jesus Christ, and that the Bible...