Word: vital
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...addition to Colburn, the top Crimson threats are Dave Pottetti and Mike Koerner, Koerner, a sophomore, has been number one or close to it for Harvard all season, but only in the last few weeks has Pottetti started making vital contributions to the team's performance...
...Cambridge Project can provide vital information to the Defense Department and at the same time further the interests of peace, Karl W. Deutsch, professor of Government, told a public meeting yesterday at the First Parish Church of Cambridge...
...inefficiency and sloth, India's dominant Congress Party has played a vital role in nurturing the growth of democracy in a diverse and desperately poor land. In the 22 years of India's independence from Britain, the party has been the stabilizing factor of Indian political life. A benign octopus that embraced both doctrinaire socialists and free-enterprising rightists, it provided the framework within which India's many sects and nationalities could work together for common political goals. During the past several years, though, the Congress Party has been increasingly riven by internal strife. Last week...
Whatever else it may possess or lack, a great city cannot be dull. It must have a sense of place and a feeling all its own, and its citizens must be different from and more vital than those who live elsewhere. The difference does not even have to be in their favor. The native Parisian, for instance, is born with an ineradicable hauteur that others define as rudeness, and the native New Yorker knows the meaning of avarice before he can spell the word. So strong is the trait that a century ago, Anthony Trollope waspishly noted that every...
...judge's contempt power goes back to the early English kings, who gave their judges the right to punish anyone showing disrespect for the laws of the realm. In modern usage, the power is considered vital in helping judges to preserve order. Even so, U.S. courts and legislatures have lately sought to limit "summary contempt"-that is, the judge's awesome right to bring the charge, reach a finding of guilty and sentence the offender...