Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rachlevsky has put his heart and soul and lifeblood in this to make it go," says Madeleine Phillips of Grosse Pointe Farms, who has attended the concerts for seven years. "He's the artistic director, the manager of the outfit, the principal violinist. He did it all -- legwork to advertising. He almost cloned himself...
Babbitt's finest achievement as Governor was his passage of landmark legislation to protect the lifeblood of Arizona's rapid economic growth: its scarce underground water. This came only after a dramatic charade in which Babbitt enlisted Cecil Andrus, then Secretary of the Interior. The two agreed that Andrus would threaten to cut funding for a major water project dear to powerful economic interests in Arizona unless the state managed its groundwater better. "I went home and called him an overreaching federal hypocrite," Babbitt recalls with a grin. Then, having immersed himself in the arcana of water management, Babbitt mediated...
Just as competitive as personal-computer makers are the feisty independent companies that write the software for the machines. The programming firms, only frail upstarts not long ago, now constitute a $3.3 billion U.S. industry whose creative output is the lifeblood of the computer business. Last week two major hardware manufacturers, IBM and Apple, announced major moves that could have an impact on the balance of competitive power in the bruising software business. Apple said it will create a new programming company, to be financed with some of the manufacturer's $700 million cash hoard, while IBM announced...
Although for centuries kings, emperors and politicians have hotly disputed this topic and men and women have shed their lifeblood to defend their opinions, even today the answer eludes scientists and philosophers alike...
...They [Citystep members] have a lot of faith [in the organization], so it sometimes gets hard when people don't recognize that through their wallets. This is water off their backs, but our lifeblood," says Savitz...