Word: crucial
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Supporting this incredible confession, Bush's aides have described a period of "reality therapy" for the President. "Frankly," says one, "he didn't understand the deficit until after the election. The sessions have been real eye-openers and have shown him how crucial a budget strategy is to everything else he wants to accomplish." Transition co-director Craig Fuller, who was Bush's vice-presidential chief of staff, agrees that the President has but recently delved deep into the budget. Bush is only now fully aware of the difficulties facing his "flexible freeze," says Fuller, especially if interest rates...
Arafat's new tone is indeed remarkable. His achievement thus far--meeting America's conditions for negotiation--was a crucial first step toward settlement. Nevertheless, America set those preconditions so it could deal with the PLO; this was not a pledge to accommodate the PLO. A number of key issues justify skepticism in the PLO before anyone can embrace its proposal to comandeer a Palestinian state...
...exceptional because of her coolness under pressure," sailing Coach Ben Cesare says. "She's calm and collected, and in sailing that's crucial. She has a goodly portion of innate ability and she's started with the things that are harder to teach...
Onstage, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the Choderlos de Laclos novel, was elegant and epicene. Les Lay caught the novel's central conceit -- that sex is a wicked game, the rankest form of show business -- in a witty talkathon on Topic A. The movie goes one crucial step further, allowing the characters to shrug off their finery and display some redeeming prurient interest. The actresses are all wanly handsome: ornaments of an era close to exhaustion. Pfeiffer and Thurman make for luscious bookends in the library of lust. Close sits back and plays the puppeteer...
...around to protest. Harvard pulled the same stunt in 1955, when it demolished Shady Hill, the much-loved old Norton mansion, during summer vacation. What astonishes me is the crassness with which the University thinks it can bulldoze informed and heartfelt reservations about its plans--reservations based on crucial issues of the urban environment, student and faculty working conditions, and the purpose of the University...