Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crucial one for Harvard (6-4-3, 2-1-2 Ivy), which has been unbeaten in its last five contests, including a 2-2 tie against Ivy rival Cornell in Ithaca...
That set the stage for a crucial matchup against the Tigers. A loss would have perhaps ended the Crimson's hopes for an Ivy title and a free berth into the NCAA Tournament...
Everybody knows that money is a crucial ingredient in a school's success. There is something absurd, and deeply unfair, about a nationwide system of funding that provides the least amount of money to the most impoverished students. But cries of poverty obscure the role of other, equally powerful forces that determine how well a school system manages the money it does get. Each year, schools receive a torrent of funds. Exactly where this money ends up, however, is often something of a mystery, embedded in budgets that might as well have been written in Sanskrit...
...other administrators, teachers and principals questioned by state investigators agreed that the system desperately needed more money. Yet the investigators discovered that the system failed to use millions of dollars it did have. When school administrators somehow failed to spend $600,000 earmarked for early-intervention programs now deemed crucial to real urban-school reform, the state pulled back the money. The school system also failed to tap a $58 million building-construction fund until a girl was seriously burned when a school boiler forced superheated steam through a school toilet, says Nancy Grasmick, state superintendent of education...
...country. That most of these efforts aren't explicitly run by the federal Department of Education should not obscure their nationalizing effect. Few high schools would dare proclaim that they weren't going to prepare their students for the SATs. But American education is still quite local in one crucial way: individual schools have the freedom to be bad. There is no reliable way today to ensure that every American public school student is getting a decent education, and, indeed, many are not getting one. This is a big problem--the worst problem in what is on the whole...