Word: vitalness
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...doubt motivated by a young nation’s concern for its own safety and stability. But now, when the United States is protected by the most powerful security forces on the globe, the Second Amendment is neither relevant nor useful. Rather, it has become an impediment to vital public policy, and it should be repealed and replaced with nuanced federal legislation...
...vital danger, which means it is eating the margins of the company, but it is not an immediate...
...tougher to put a positive gloss on the loss of two CDs containing vital personal information about 25 million Britons, including bank details and other data that could be exploited by identity fraudsters. Brown's successor as Chancellor, Alistair Darling, told incredulous colleagues in the House of Commons on Nov. 20 that the discs intended for the National Audit Office had sent by the standard courier service used for internal government mail by an official at the government department HM Revenue & Customs, flouting guidelines on the security of such data. The discs never reached their destination...
...fetish. If you have never felt a similar gnawing concern about what might be occupying your inbox or grimaced as you opened Gmail after a computer-less weekend, you are probably one of those academic superstars who are too busy to be reading this column. What are all these vital communications? Most of the nine hundred messages in my inbox are not addressed to me specifically. Their subject lines begin with brackets, indicating that they come from one of the dozen or so organizations to which I, as a Harvard student, am duty-bound to devote my spare time. Some...
...Loyalty isn't just any virtue for Giuliani; in his memoirs he called it "the vital virtue." That's an interesting plug from a man who has been married three times and informed one of his ex-wives that their marriage was over at a press conference. Loyalty, an attractive virtue in friendship, is an alarming one in politics, when faithful cronies are promoted in public service simply because they show fealty to the boss. 'Twas ever thus, of course. But with the ghosts of Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers still rattling around loudly in Washington, Americans have learned what...