Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Westerners resent the bureaucratic decision to cut Amtrak service, something far more vital to Butte and Cheyenne than to Nashville or Columbus, and the general disregard of the gas crunch until it hit the East. Montana's Democratic Governor Thomas Judge, among other Western Governors, put out an urgent plea to the Department of Energy for help in securing diesel fuel for crop harvesting Said Judge: "I got absolutely nowhere I had to go out myself and buy 75,000 barrels from New York...
...Leon Botstein, 32, is one of the nation's most forceful advocates of an often neglected cause: the small liberal arts college. Although he attended the University of Chicago and Harvard, Botstein believes that in an increasingly complex world the traditional college can provide a vital educational function quite different from that of large, research-oriented universities. He has buttressed his argument with an impressive performance. In 1970, at the age of 23, he became one of the youngest college presidents in American history when he took over and briefly revived New Hampshire's failing and nonaccredited Franconia College...
...revenues and an editorial raison d'être. Serious service articles on health and careers replaced slick travel and fashion pieces. One of her big victories: persuading advertisers to use black models in ads for black consumers. "I wanted to show what black women really are: beautiful, courageous and incredibly vital people,' says Gillespie. Born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and schooled at Lake Forest College, Gillespie, now editor in chief, is in demand as a speaker about the aspirations of black women, and Essence, with a circulation of 600,000 has set a high standard of editorial quality...
...coli makes a vital hormone...
Somatotropin is one of the body's important chemicals. Produced by the tiny pituitary gland at the base of the brain, it promotes normal physical growth, hence its other name, human growth hormone (HGH). The chemical is vital in the treatment of a certain form of dwarfism. Unless children who are deficient in the hormone receive injections of HGH, they rarely reach five feet in height. The supply, however, is severely limited: somatotropin can only be obtained from cadavers, and about 50 of the pea-sized glands are needed to treat just one child for a year (cost...