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Word: crucially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your roommate is a crucial component of the college experience. I dropped out of school, partially because I had a very bad roommate experience my second year. I think the likely result of this policy will be that students will leave or develop alternative living arrangements that allow them to relieve their discomfort. In fact, I suspect that if the issue were researched, it would be found that in almost every situation where there was discomfort and a change request was denied, some arrangement of this sort occurred. You can't force people to live together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard Invitational will serve as the team's final tune-up before the Ivy League Championships at Dartmouth next weekend. After beating Brown and losing to Yale in a crucial Ivy League homestand this weekend, Harvard earned the No. 3 spot at the tournament...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Whips Wildcats, 3-0 | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...anything, this moderate discomfort is crucial to learning. Education--both academic and personal--is not a process by which we comfortably reaffirm our preexisting beliefs. Rather, learning stems from discomfort, from exposure to people who are different from ourselves. It is a process by which we test our personal truths against an array of competing beliefs...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Thinly Veiled Bias | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...says. "But these results are logical: If you have a positive sense of self, you are more likely to exercise and to take care of yourself." Specific types of fitness routines are important as we age, adds Gorman. "Studies have shown strength training leads to improved balance, which is crucial to older people, because so often, falls are what land elderly people in the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm OK, You're OK. Pass the Tapioca | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...major groups of animals in the world today--mammals, crocodiles, turtles, frogs--most appeared during the Triassic, 220 million to 200 million years ago." With new discoveries making the origin of these groups ever more remote, he adds, "any find dating to this period is clearly very crucial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bones from The Dawn of Dinosaurs | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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