Word: crucially
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...problems facing Vance and Gromyko last week perhaps the most difficult was one touching on a crucial aspect of arms control: SALT I's guarantee that neither side would interfere with the other's attempts to check, by electronic means or spy satellites, on whether there has been cheating. In Pacific Ocean tests last July, Moscow used a complex code to hide the data beamed from its warheads to Soviet listening stations. The purpose might have been to prevent the U.S. from fully monitoring the tests. Vance undoubtedly argued last week that SALT implicitly prohibits such coding...
...Crucial, too. For the moment, industry officials are going along with the price guideline, which calls for companies to hold price boosts half a percentage point below the average for 1976-77. But their compliance is not likely to last if unions push wages and benefits up beyond the 7% a year average permitted by the guidelines. Says one Administration official: "Ninety percent of the program will depend on holding down wage increases." Gentry adds: "Companies can agree to abide by the program now and always raise their prices later if things go bad. But a union that takes...
...criticism aimed at Jerusalem is at least in part deserved. At several crucial steps in the peace process, it has been Israel rather than Egypt that has moved grudgingly, split hairs and seemed to shrivel the spirit of the proposed agreement with excessive legalisms. A glaring example is the stubbornness with which the Begin government has pursued its policy of expanding Israeli settlements in the territories occupied since...
...such as inflation and unemployment. And the thought of convening another Camp David-style summit makes Administration aides shudder. Carter said it is "not my preference," and one senior official declared emphatically: "It is the last thing we want." With the Guadalupe summit of the West's leaders, a crucial round of the arms talks and a visit by China's Teng Hsiao-p'ing all approaching, the calendar does not even have room for a second Camp David...
Last June, after four years of patient observing, the researchers finally made the crucial measurement. They employed a new, extremely sensitive computerized clocking device capable of detecting orbital timing changes of only one fifty-millionth of a second. This superaccurate timer revealed that in those four years the orbital period of the objects had decreased a total of four ten-thousandths of a second. That was exactly on the Einsteinian mark. Said Taylor: "We don't claim to have detected gravitational waves themselves, but simply proved they exist...