Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived at the scene. Investigators suspect arsonists set the fire that ignited more than 20 tons of ammonium nitrate, an explosive used at the construction site. But their search for clues and a motive will be no easy task. The explosion was so destructive that it may have obliterated crucial evidence...
About 200 students and alumni of the Yale School of Organization and Management--the rough equivalent of Harvard's Business School--stood outside the meeting to protest what they say are crucial curriculum and faculty that will change the tenor of the school...
...slowdown really surprised me," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "I'm really happy that we didn't lose our composure. We still have to learn that every possession is crucial. It's like a mental exercise, and this game helped us do that...
...have called repeatedly on the Corporation, Harvard's seven-man governing body, to appoint a woman or minority who is genuinely in touch with Harvard's 167,000 alumni and students. Such a choice will add a crucial viewpoint to the University, especially when it must deal with pressing issues ranging from minority faculty hiring to admission of Asian-Americans. Now, the Corporation has two empty seats it can use to bring in a woman or minority and end its existence as an all-white male committee made up of representatives from the old boy network...
...Tchernichova who actually produces the"Baryshnikov ballerina." Fraser recognizes and describes the importance of Charles France, Baryshnikov's assistant, to his boss. A brilliant, obsessive fellow, France virtually handed his head, stuffed with dance scholarship and a phenomenal performance memory, to Baryshnikov on a plate. Often his erudition was crucial; a Soviet's knowledge of dance is necessarily parochial. Says the star: "I would not be where I am today without Charles. Period...