Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full Council, has worked very hard and capably to allot 63 percent of the council's budget to the student grants process. The allotment of grants is a tremendous responsibility, yet it is a very worthwhile use of the council's resources as the funds are the lifeblood of many student groups on campus...
There probably is not much that can or should be done about this. Surely the Dean of Students shouldn't clamp down on new student activities; those activities are the lifeblood of this campus and they often change people's lives...
Members of Congress got nervous. The lifeblood of democracy--and of their fancy offices--had almost been cut off. So Congress promptly funded IRS computer modernization. Before, the IRS had had a plan and no money; now it had money and no plan. No matter. It initiated a flood of programs (a state-of-the-art computer was necessary just to keep track of all the acronyms--ACI, AES, ALSS, AUR, FAISR, ICS, IMS). But each system was designed independently to meet specific needs within the empire. All systems would be go by the year 2001, the agency blandly assured...
Biggie's songs used to the lifeblood of any hip-hop gathering. From the party anthem "Big Poppa" to the menacing "Who Shot Ya?" his music was always a crowd pleaser. But listening to Biggie's catchy rhymes about violence, money, blunts, women and designer clothes frequently leads to gloomy retrospection. Listening to so-called gangsta rap music now not only evokes memories of the recent slayings of rappers but also provokes a more significant contemplation of the thousands of young black men who are cut down in their prime every year...
Collaboration is the lifeblood of the musical theater: Mozart and Da Ponte, Verdi and Boito, Strauss and Hofmannsthal. But posthumous collaboration has had to wait until the advent of the phonograph, motion pictures and the camcorder. Today the late George Gershwin can play Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Tilson Thomas, Natalie Cole can sing a duet with her deceased dad Nat King Cole--and composer Philip Glass can write a trilogy of operas with the French author, aesthete and movie director Jean Cocteau, dead since...