Word: crucially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wanted the Gulf of Aqaba to be referred to as Eilat after the city that lies at its head. That solution was easy. Eilat was inserted in parentheses after the mention of Aqaba in the notes accompanying the treaty. But Begin's insistence that the West Bank, so crucial in the coming negotiations, be called by the biblical name of Judea and Samaria was something else. Without this change he could not sign, insisted the Premier. He clamped his jaw. The Knesset had approved the treaty with the biblical terms, explained Begin. Inured to such tactics, Carter suggested...
...Crucial to progress toward a broader peace is help from Saudi Arabia and Jordan. James Noyes, a Saudi affairs expert at Berkeley's Institute of International Studies, observes that Saudi Arabia is in "an exquisite dilemma. It has to support Sadat but condemn him at the same time." Without help, Sadat could fall, throwing the future role of Egypt into confusion...
...interviewer who has dropped out to do some soul searching in Southern California; a woman writer with the disconcerting habit of throwing her voice at crucial emotional moments; a dim-bulb movie star and her producer paramour, who keeps his wealth in a sock drawer and begins too many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz...
...looks. Some lofty thinkers even feel that the look of a President is of little significance. In reality, a leader's countenance and mien have always been of great moment to the led, and a President embodies an epic load of national symbolism. Externals have become ever more crucial since ubiquitous television has taken over as the main medium of campaigning. Today, as Daniel Boorstin notes in his book The Image, "our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals...
...they suffered no longer after Saturday afternoon's crucial twinbill with Navy was over. "Pass the word, the 'Dogs' are back," they were saying, and why not? The Harvard baseball team had swept the doubleheader with the Midshipmen, 8-2 and 3-1, and did it with the true flair and ability of a defending league champion...