Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that she would become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. There were simply too many imponderables. One unanswered question was whether the unions were in such bad grace with the majority of voters that the open support of bosses like Evans and Weighell for Callaghan would tip the crucial swing vote in favor of the Tories. The country's rapidly growing and increasingly restive black and Asian population could be a significant factor, even though less than half of eligible minority voters had bothered to register. Since Thatcher has publicly called for more restrictions on immigration, their vote...
...which moved Harvard's record to 9-3 on the season, came on a crucial weekend in the men's lacrosse picture...
...team, though, Brownie has lapsed this year--and this time around, a stream of scouts has been there each time to check him out. As a rule, scouts do not say much to reporters, but what they have said this year indicates that getting Brownie is not exactly considered crucial to the lives of their respective franchises. Unlike teammate Stenhouse, Brown will probably not go in the top round or two of the June 5 draft...
...apartheid, indeed, it is difficult to see how such reforms can have any impact. In light of these premises, the present policy of the Harvard Corporation seems to be one of empty and ineffective gestures towards reform, gestures which, however well-intentioned, cannot have any impact on apartheid. The crucial lesson that I think this policy teaches our students is that the Harvard Corporation will go hand-in-hand with other corporations, that the Harvard Corporation is so bound up with our economic system that it cannot deviate from the corporate consensus, that it cannot rock the boat, criticizing...
Willing to wait for the right moment, the Tigers forced the Crimson to make crucial mistakes that cost them goals. The Princeton squad seemed to anticipate every move the laxwomen tried to execute. In an impressive display of heads-up lacrosse, the Tiger offense forced a turnover by the Crimson defense and fed the ball right back in for an easy score. The Princeton defense made all the key interceptions and stickchecks they needed to thwart the Crimson's attack...