91.   What are our vital interests?

92.   We are doing it, as I said, to protect vital interests.

93.   When our vital interests are at stake, of course, we might have to act alone.

94.   When the vital interests of the United States seem to be at stake, the expenditure of American dollars for foreign aid can be amply justified.

95.   With no vital American interests at stake, the president understandably held back.

96.   With no vital American interest at stake, the Sudanese civil war is the kind of imbroglio that President Bush has suggested he wants to avoid.

97.   Would the fall of Yeltsin and the collapse of the embattled reform movement harm vital U.S. interests?

98.   A. Peace in Europe is a vital American interest.

99.   Although both countries deny helping the rebels, they say they retain the right to intervene in the conflict if it affects their vital interests.

100.   America has a vital interest in the European stability, and therefore, peace in the region.