Word: vitalness
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Snowe has been a rising star on the national political scene since her election to the House of Representatives in 1978, at the age of 31. Her constant focus on the vital issues of the day has won Snowe the respect of politicians and students alike. In a poll of Kennedy students, Snowe came out as the preferred class day speaker...
...mass retailers such as the Limited and K Mart, access to cheap (and legal) imported goods is vital to survival in a fiercely competitive industry. The Limited has announced no plans to change its sourcing, and will begin mounting its legal defense in early June. In all likelihood the company is waiting for the issue to fade, figuring that consumers will keep their eyes fixed on the lingerie and not the label...
Meanwhile, the teacher, ever desperate to exhibit vital signs, forages for inspirational material. How to convey that this stuff is essential? How to get across that what is not practically useful is most useful? They are salmon in the springtime, and Professor Backwards has one small porous net. To catch even one or two. Is that worth a life, Mr. Chips...
...surgeon's role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy. Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages. For example, one sentence on cell division begins, "Meiosis is somewhat more complicated because its purpose is to result in a spermatogonium or oogonium with half the original chromosome number..." Yes, "complicated" is indeed the mot juste...
That is particularly true of what we now know were the vital first few months of their lives. A lot of those conversations seem to have taken place in the wee hours of the morning, at a time when I was so sleepy that I wasn't quite certain whether I was really awake or simply having another diaper dream...