Word: crucially
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...assumptions, leaders and even a culture very different from those of the man who called himself a Republican. The political parties functioned in a sense like secular churches, with doctrines and powers of intercession, with saints, rites, duties, disciplines and rewards. From wards to White House, the parties were crucial to the way the country worked. The old Tammany boss Carmine DeSapio remembered hauling coal as a young party errand boy to keep families of voters from freezing in the winter. A millionaire political boss like Mark Hanna could install William McKinley as President...
...seat state legislature. In the battle for the remaining seat, from the rural area around Gettysburg, Incumbent Democrat Kenneth Cole and Republican Donald Moul, director of the National Trotting and Pacing Association, each got exactly 8,551 votes. The tie made it impossible to settle such crucial matters as control of the speaker's job and the appointment of committee chairmen. Should the tie hold after a recount, the candidates will settle the contest by drawing lots from a paper bag. Complained Cole's wife: "People in a democracy are entitled to more than a poker game...
That discouraging prospect was all the more frustrating to the U.S. since most of the outstanding issues had been settled. Indeed, according to an Israeli estimate, the draft peace treaty was "75% to 80%" complete. The two sides had reached agreement on such crucial issues as the end of the 30-year state of war and the establishment of relations, the exchange of ambassadors, the location of boundaries, the placement of troops and the role of United Nations forces, and Israeli navigation rights in the Gulf of Suez. Egypt and Israel had also reached a meeting of minds...
...linkage is particularly important to Sadat, who is still trying to convince the moderate Arab states, and especially Saudi Arabia, that he is not selling out the Arab cause but is working for an overall settlement. Sadat has been disappointed that the Saudis, whose economic support is crucial to Egypt, have not publicly endorsed the Camp David accords. In truth they have been giving him some behind-the-scenes help. At a pan-Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraq to counter the peace initiative, Saudi Crown Prince Fahd told the other delegates: "An attack on Sadat...
Peking hopes that tourism will provide foreign exchange needed to help pay for its ambitious economic development plans. Indeed, Intercontinental's hopes of pioneering in China (other firms will also surely be invited in) got a crucial lift last October, when Pan Am Chairman William T. Sea well had a meeting in Peking with China's Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who is the regime's leading proponent of rapid development...