Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Funding from the Finance Committee of the Undergraduate Council is literally the lifeblood of scores of student organizations...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We can all agree that we need a balanced budget. But we don't need to cut the lifeblood from our families and communities...
...thinking--making judgments, often creative ones, that are based on evidence, not on desires, received beliefs, or hearsay. Thinking in this way is not unique to the natural sciences; it is important for many disciplines. But the pursuit of evidence, through experiment and observation, is the lifeblood of science...
...date that The Spot, the first serial drama designed specifically for the Internet, made its debut. But the Net's first narrative-driven vehicle did not venture into the mysteries of science fiction. Nor did it relate any apocalyptic fantasies about virtual militiamen. Instead it offered the lifeblood of housewives in terry-cloth slippers: a sexed-up daytime serial...
...connect with voters in a physical, almost sexual way. A handshake and a brisk "How'm I doin'?", a la former Mayor Ed Koch, is not enough. Pappas has to bear-hug you, squeezing all the love and loyalty from your body into his. He's a vampire whose lifeblood is the unconditional emotional endorsement of everyone in the city...