Word: vitalness
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Board players revel in the notion that they are in the know. They note that the boards are often filled with such vital information as strategic plans, growth projections, competitive analysis and sophisticated discussion of new products. In the Intel folder, contributors regularly discuss dram pricing and its likely impact on the stock price, while in the Merck board, doctors have weighed in with their views of Fosamax, the company's new osteoporosis drug. "It's the kind of concrete information Wall Street used to have a monopoly on because they were the only ones with the money to perform...
...mayor, Reeves was a role model to the city's youth, and "his unwavering support of the public schools, which are over 50 percent minority," was vital, says School Committee member E. Denise Simmons, who is black...
...more sedate Ivy League has also ben a hotbed of protest this past year. After an ethnic studies rally of more than 400 students at Columbia University, 22 students were arrested by police in riot gear after they took over Low Library and Hamilton Hall, the school's most vital academic and administrative buildings, for several days...
Panayotou says balancing short-and long-term success is of vital importance in environmental cleanup efforts. In the nations in which the greatest harm to the environment has been done, it is often not economically feasible to repair all of the damage immediately...
Advocates also argue that legalizing gay unions is a way of getting the spousal benefits--health insurance, pension plans, inheritance rights--that long-term domestic partners deserve. Moreover, Sullivan maintains that marriage will encourage care giving to partners, something especially vital in the age of AIDS...