Word: crucially
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This institution is supposed to lead the way in all areas of intellectual innovation and challenge, but it is falling short of meeting this responsibility when it comes down to these crucial issues...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: One day before a crucial Senate vote on the chemical weapons treaty, Bill Clinton got backing from an unexpected source: Bob Dole. Citing alterations in the treaty language, Dole said "there are now adequate safeguards to protect American interests." Dole's support could provide crucial political cover to Trent Lott and other wavering Senate Republicans, TIME's Jef McAllister notes. "Dole has always been closer to the internationalist wing than to the isolationists that Helms has marshaled against the treaty." While White House officials hoped that Dole's endorsement would give them the needed votes, spokesman Mike McCurry...
When he made the TIME 25 last year, DICK MORRIS was little known to the public but crucial to the White House. In campaign '96 he "triangulated" Clinton into the political center and sold the idea of a massively expensive media buy that kept Democrats scrambling to pay the bills (see above: Al Gore, problems of). But just as Morris emerged on the cover of TIME and the President headed for his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, the supermarket tabloid Star pushed the plunger on the dynamite Morris rested upon. A paid companion told just how she had companioned...
Personal assessment is crucial because there is no average woman. "Individuals have individual risk factors," explains Col. High cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart disease, may have to be weighed against a mother who died of breast cancer. Col's model, based on data from hundreds of studies, helps rank all these factors. Among other things, it shows that women who at age 50 are already at highest risk of breast cancer and lowest risk of heart disease clearly do not benefit from HRT. Other women could extend their life expectancy from three months to three years...
...total emptiness of their lives, and reading is something they know is important and haven't quite forgotten how to do. Plus, a book club sure beats church and synagogue." In Los Angeles, traditionally the land of rampant intellectual insecurity and social transience, some book clubs fulfill a crucial dual role: they elevate members' sensibilities while helping them put down roots. "I get a lot of calls from newcomers in town," says Diane Leslie, an organizer of book clubs in what is now the nation's No. 1 book market. "They don't want to take a class because they...