Word: lifeblood
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...final clubs have been stripped of their access to steam heat and the centrex phone system, but they have not lost their lifeblood: support and respect from individual students and University officials. The question in the case of Ms. Couch then is not whether her actions were in violation of University regulations, but rather why she condones the existence of final club in the first place...
...other group members have different ideas about the band's purpose in Detroit. They know the true reason for their presence is to humiliate the other teams and embarrass the opposing bands. Taunting cheers are the lifeblood of the Harvard musical corps...
Farmers are not the only ones who understand the joys of the harvest festival. A whole rural culture extracts its lifeblood from the ritual of renewal, no place more than Iowa, the most agricultural of American states. Teachers, merchants, veterinarians and mechanics from the small towns link the farmers and help orchestrate community life. For the moment, some of the small towns are in more distress than the farmers. The Government provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes...
...immediate danger, explained USGS Glaciologist Larry Mayo, is that the lake, now rising about 1 ft. a day, will spill out of its southern end into the Situk River (see chart), a salmon-spawning stream that is the economic lifeblood of Yakutat. If the lake overflows, the clear Situk could become a destructive torrent of silty water about 20 times its present volume, unfit for salmon and fishermen. "In another 500 to 1,000 years," says Mayo, "Hubbard Glacier could fill Yakutat Bay, as it did in about 1130." Susie Abraham, 85, a silver-haired elder of Yakutat's native...
Harvard must have a method of preserving the rights of free speech, the lifeblood of a university community. The University affirmed these rights in the 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsbilities, the document which the CRR was formed to enforce, which pledges that the University will uphold freedom of speech and movement, and freedom from harassment...