Word: vitalness
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...four other girls, ages 8 to 19, missing for more than a year. The tragedy transfixed Belgium, and national TV broadcast their funerals live. Shock then turned to outrage when it was disclosed that Dutroux was a convicted kidnapper-rapist, released early from prison against prosecutors' advice. Worse, vital information about the original abductions was withheld by competing investigators, and Dutroux allegedly had high-level protection...
...knowledge of Africa. For this reason, I suggested an individual because of his significant international business experience. His political contribution was noted only as a final point after a substantial list of professional credentials. Your mistake has caused embarrassment to me and my organization and impeded our vital humanitarian work in Africa. C. PAYNE LUCAS, President Africare Washington
...series of allusions and suggestions geared at strutting his or her intellectual feathers. In this class however, the professor was met by the unimaginable--silence first, and then the apprehensive raising of a hand or two. Was there no one here who felt that his ideas were positively vital to the evolution of an educated discussion of the subject matter? Was there no one who felt that she could enlighten us all in the glow of her magnificent mind? The English department is a part of Harvard University...
Bowles' appointment--and the manner in which it was made--is the clearest ideological statement about Clinton's second term since his election-night promise to govern from "the vital center." Clinton has turned over the most important job in the White House to a pro-business centrist who pushed hard for a balanced budget, advocated cutting a deal with Republicans and was an internal ally of the liberals' pariah, the consultant Dick Morris. If there were any doubts left, they disappeared when liberal-in-chief Harold Ickes read in the papers about how he was being passed over...
...Clinton reserved judgment. "I don't think we know enough yet," he concluded, "to say that the mission won't be needed." He ordered the Pentagon to continue preparations but delayed giving a deployment order. Relief workers on the scene still insist that an armed force is vital to get food and medicine through, arguing that even if all the occupants of Mugunga were on the road home, up to 500,000 who would require help remain in Zaire--though no one has a reliable head count. "Doubts are beginning to form," says an Administration official. "The U.S. will have...