Word: crucially
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While the rest of Harvard has spent the winter bundled up in dormitories, the men's and women's tennis teams have been tuning up for the crucial dual-match spring season by participating in numerous tournaments. As a result, they are poised and ready to conquer the Ivy League, assert themselves as the dominant team in the Northeast, and get to the big dance--the NCAAs...
With the number of people applying to medical school increasing and the process becoming more convoluted, advisors can play a crucial role in helping applicants get through the process successfully...
...Berezovsky, 51, entered private enterprise in the late 1980s by founding Logovaz, now Russia's largest car dealer. Today his interests include banking, oil, TV broadcasting and airlines. More than his peers, Berezovsky has used his now considerable wealth to make friends in high places: his financial support was crucial to Yeltsin's against-the-odds re-election last year...
Next year is crucial for the euro, which formally begins circulating in 1999. Economic performance in 1997 will be the basis for deciding, early in 1998, which nations meet the Maastricht Treaty criteria on debt, deficits and inflation that underlie the currency union. Bundesbank policies can help or hurt plans by many countries, including Germany, to meet the criteria by boosting economic growth. But more important, Tietmeyer's mere utterances, like those of his U.S. counterpart, Alan Greenspan, can move markets or puncture investor confidence. His blessing of the euro venture would be a welcome seal of approval...
...frequency and where the food, insofar as it can be detected on the plate, is seldom warmed above the temperature of the ambient stratosphere. One can only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control computers so antique that they still run on vacuum tubes, and monitored, in most cases, by underpaid caffeine addicts working double shifts to pay off their therapists and divorce lawyers...