Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst peril is the damage that the Iranian crisis can do to the international financial system that is the lifeblood of the world economy. Nearly all the currency printed or minted by the U.S. remains physically inside the U.S., but an estimated $750 billion in legal claims on that money are held by foreign governments, corporations and individuals as so-called Eurodollar accounts overseas. Many of those accounts, including the bulk of the frozen Iranian assets, are located in the foreign branches and subsidiaries of U.S. banks. The funds are not under the jurisdiction of Washington...
...aftermath of the 1973 oil embargo, a report of the Senate multinationals subcommittee suggested the "over-riding lesson" was that "in a democracy, important questions of policy with respect to a vital commodity like oil, the lifeblood of an industrial society, cannot be left to private companies acting in accord with private interests and a closed circle of government officials." Right now information is the scarcest and most vital commodity in the oil industry. The only way the government can hope to secure a dependable supply of this commodity is to explore its own lands and to enter the market...
While Weir may not count himself a Dracula, his remarks demonstrate how much influence the private feelings of a powerful few can have over a city's lifeblood. Revealing how the city is run by "an unelected corporate shadow government" is a matter of duty for Kucinich. His targets react by branding him "Dennis the Menace," an enemy of the people. With the fervor of an Ibsen protagonist, he says, "We're going to keep exposing these liars, these crooks, who masquerade as good, upstanding citizens of the community but are morally rotten." Unlike most, this advocate of economic democracy...
...Deputy Director in the early '60s, and finally, from 1966 to 1973, as head of the CIA, Helms' efforts spanned the globe--from Chile to Cuba to the Congo to Southeast Asia to Italy and Eastern Europe, and always, always, to the USSR: anticommunism is the lifeblood of the CIA. In 1977 Helms explained what had worried him most as CIA director--not fighting secret wars, not overturning free elections, not the press, not Watergate, but..."The CIA is the only intelligence service in the Western world which has never been penetrated by the KGB. That's what I worried...
...than $85 million will travel from Washington's offices to Cambridge's laboratories and libraries, Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, reports. At the Medical Schol, officials say, 70 per cent of all research funds come from various federal agencies. "The National Institute of Health (NIH) is the lifeblood of the Medical School research effort," Elizabeth A. Picard, associate dean of the Medical faculty for financial affairs, says flatly. Federal funding has become the linchpin of academic research...