Word: vitalness
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...basketball team without a point guard is like an airplane without a pilot--it's bound to crash. Co-captain Jessica Gelman has been keeping the Harvard women's basketball team in the air all season. The personable 5'8 guard has been a vital force behind Harvard's push towards a second-straight Ivy title and has blossomed into one of the league's premier point guards...
President Clinton is right. Work-study college students can assist in the increasingly vital task of teaching young Americans to read --an ability that goes untapped when these students must file papers or clean dorms to pay for their education...
...urban-affairs adviser by Richard Nixon. At 20, Raines found himself briefing the President and most of his Cabinet on campus unrest two weeks before a nationwide antiwar moratorium. Raines' own experiences as a protester five months earlier may have provided his first taste of how inhospitable the "vital center" can be. He led a demonstration against both the militant students who occupied a university building and the administration' that decided to respond by calling in 400 policemen. Both sides condemned him. Raines later told the Washington Post, "Unless someone took the initiative, this was going to turn into...
...what became a sideshow for the public remained a vital issue for the small group of people whose isolation she had broken. "Into the '80s," says Edward Cohen, a Manhattan writer working on a book about modern atheists, "people would hear her speak live or on the air, their mouths would hang open. It reassured them that they weren't the only ones on earth to feel this way." Says Orin ("Spike") Tyson, a friend and employee of O'Hair's who is now living, albeit embattled, in the house on Greystone Drive: "She went out in public and made...
...Monetary Fund loans will also be high on the agenda. The U.S. has been a supporter of international aid to Russia, and offers support for U.S. companies exporting there. But with Russia's moribund economy, high crime and virtually no enforcement of business contracts, fiscal and judicial reform are vital to securing greater foreign investment. Just as important is Western confidence in Yeltsin's ability to lead, and Helsinki will offer him a chance to prove his resilience...