Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crews remained on the island, but at another oil-fouled landfall nearby, Exxon said. The island is considered crucial to the annual seal pupping cycle...
...Bush Administration to argue this case, who made the broad attack, presenting the White House argument that Roe should be overturned. In the most interesting exchanges of the morning, O'Connor and Kennedy appeared to press Fried to explain how the court could reverse Roe without also undoing a crucial 1965 decision, Griswold v. Connecticut. In that ruling the court found that the right of privacy protects the decision to use contraceptives. Abortion is different, Fried replied, because it involves the purposeful termination of potential life. "We are not asking the court to unravel the fabric of . . . privacy rights which...
...contemporary standards the Clemmonses are a messed-up conventional family. But how parents and siblings interact during the children's crucial teen years is conveyed in ways that may be unfamiliar. Chase subordinates plot to an arrangement of domestic crises and adolescent rituals. The passage of time is more impressionistic than chronological. Points of view are fluid and exclusively female. The wolves of the title are the male characters, whose sex drives are less complicated than those of the Clemmons girls or their stepmother. Men seem interested in only one thing, or at least in one thing at a time...
Dixon serves as a crucial role model, particularly for the many boys who don't have fathers at home. "When I grew up, families were there to teach kids that there are certain boundaries," he recalls. "Now there is no discipline in their lives. Kids' lives are like basketball played without lines." He believes Carrera's approach holds promise. "By keeping these kids on a clear education track, by having them understand the importance of delaying pregnancy and by including parents, Mike is doing what others aren't," he says...
...Holocaust's uniqueness is also a critical reminder of the importance of Israel. Despite its shortcomings, Israel is a crucial guarantee for a people long persecuted across the globe...