On the one hand, it's modern and economically vital; it's helping pull America into the prosperous twentieth century.

It's called a biological opinion for the operation of the Columbia River's economically vital federal hydroelectric system.

Eight others, including the economically vital herring and pink salmon, are slowly coming back, and 10 have shown no significant recovery.

The 300,000 black miners have severely disrupted production in the economically vital gold and coal mines in pursuit of a 30 percent across-the-board wage increase.

The world of Ix is economically vital and must not remain in the hands of the Tleilaxu.

The fact that a way of life is entrenched or economically vital speaks only of its sociological function, not of its larger virtue.

Straw weaving was an economically vital industry in America during the 1800s.

By the end of the 1990s and early 2000s, the neighborhood had transformed into an economically vital community.

We should certainly not discourage maritime transport: it is en environmentally-friendly form of transport and economically vital.

In the early 1980's, Thursday was not considered nearly as economically vital as it is now.