Word: crucial
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...Shattuck report calls on Bush to revamp the classification system and reduce the existing system of export controls and other related restrictions regarding the dissemination of unclassified scientific and technical information. It comes at a crucial time, when the United States is falling behind in the race to develop new technology...
...damaging to the American economy as well. Japan has overtaken us in the race to develop superconductors partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy 188,000 jobs and $9 billion a year and was a major factor contributing to the nation's record trade deficit...
...fourth varsity game, Chambers was one of the key factors in Penn's 67-63 win over Harvard last Saturday at the Palestra. Against the tough Crimson press, Chambers was able to spell starting guards Frazier and Tyrone Gilliams--enough to allow the duo to be fresh for the crucial final minutes of the game. Frazier scored nine of the Quakers' 11 final points...
...goalie Peter Fish, however, got stronger as the game grew longer. The Terrier netminder closed the contest with crucial blocks in the overtime period to finish with 28 saves...
...Criterion Collection, from the Voyager Co. in Santa Monica, Calif., turns out the most formidable disc library. Its version of Orson Welles' masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons contains, among other items, the entire shooting script, a full set of storyboards, and stills of crucial scenes deleted by the studio. The Criterion edition of Blade Runner has a lavish set of designs by "visual futurist" Syd Mead; the disc of 2001 was personally . overseen by Stanley Kubrick and includes almost a thousand pages of essays and production memos. "We're a significant part of an as yet insignificant business," says Voyager...