Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McAfee organizes two events to help transfers get through those crucial first weeks of school--a lengthy meeting outlining the College's expectations and regulations and a dinner at Pforzheimer House with senior tutors and concentration heads...
...show season after season for years should not be vulnerable to sudden disruption from outside the screen. I have plenty of friends who grew up with single parents--or double parents who didn't much like each other--for whom Bill Cosby's intact, warm TV household was a crucial refuge. Now it's gone. And no matter how the current story evolves, those reruns will be difficult to watch, those comforting memories tainted if not spoiled. When Ricky Nelson, America's TV son, died in a mysterious plane crash, rumors swirled that the child actor turned rock star...
...host of a weekly show on the local classical radio station, has taken the orchestra to area churches and, most unusual for a big-name conductor, has been handling many of the children's concert's himself rather than assigning them to an assistant. "I think it is crucial that the message to the young people comes from the person in charge of the organization," he says. Privately, he is lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton on behalf of all American cultural institutions. "She's very interested in the arts," he says. "And so is the President--more than you think...
...smart moves. She saw that the Post needed to be improved editorially and hired the right man, Ben Bradlee, to do it. (The meeting in which she put out the first feelers to him was the first time she had ever taken a man to lunch.) She gave the crucial go-ahead to publish the Pentagon Papers, after a federal judge had halted publication of them in the New York Times. And, of course, she stood tall during the paper?s groundbreaking Watergate coverage, backing her reporters in the face of enormous pressure from the Nixon Administration, which included politically...
Davis said the biggest crowd he had ever seen at a sailing race was this fall at MIT, when spectators on the roof of the MIT boathouse were positioned in front of a crucial turning buoy...