Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found a more tempting target than UPS. The giant company (1996 revenues: $22.4 billion) delivers 80% of all packages shipped by ground nationwide, making it impossible for rivals to pick up much of the business quickly. Indeed, as the strike wore on last week, America suddenly awoke to the crucial role of UPS as a hauler of goods with a dollar value equal to an astonishing 5% of the country's gross domestic product. So widespread was the pain that major retailers, who rely on UPS for supplies of fresh merchandise, urged President Clinton to intervene. But the President refused...
...that spirit. To restore morale, Jobs says, he went to the mat with the old board to lower the price of incentive stock options, which had become virtually worthless as the share price sagged. In Silicon Valley, where job opportunities are as common as Porsches, stock options are crucial to retain employees. When the board members resisted, he pushed for their resignations. Jobs repriced the option at $13.25. Apple employees have already made...
Sharks play a crucial role in keeping aquatic wildlife in balance. Scientists now understand that the ocean ecosystem has been evolving over hundreds of millions of years as an integrated whole--a biological machine in which each component has a vital function. For most sharks, that function is to serve as what biologists call an apex predator, the ocean equivalent of a lion or tiger or bear. Not only do they keep prey populations in check, but they also tend to eat the slowest, weakest and least wily individuals. In so doing, they improve the target species' gene pool, leaving...
...played sweetly enough but without any of the alternating tension and expansiveness demanded by Tate. The first violins never broke through a stifling false refinement--perhaps they're not used to a conductor so passionate as Tate. The seconds, ironically, showed much more emotion than the firsts in the crucial middle movement...
...just the right blend of the comic and the earnest, and dance movies have always had a certain charm, from Fred Astaire to "Strictly Ballroom." But what makes "Shall We Dance?" really interesting is its subtle illustration of the social-cultural fabric of its story, so different in crucial ways from that familiar to most Western viewers...