Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy has paid off. The investigation defused public criticism, crippled congressional hearings by making crucial witnesses unavailable and hobbled the press by silencing potential sources. Starr took no significant steps during the fall campaign, thus ensuring that his investigation remained untainted by what might have appeared to be partisan politics. No wonder Whitewater never took on any significance as a campaign issue...
Here's one thing at least that Republicans have in common with Democrats. Every few years they give off the odor of desperation. Both parties rest on such unstable coalitions that after every big election the losing side goes into a mortal funk, wondering whether its crucial constituencies are cutting loose once and for all. One year after George Bush was proclaimed unbeatable, the Republicans were sifting through the wreckage of their loss to Bill Clinton. Two years after that, the Democrats lost Congress so badly they were asking if the numbers would ever add up their way again...
...Barvikha to the heart center on the edge of Moscow. The patient was in a good mood, his spokesman reported later, and joked with the doctors. After two months of waiting, wild rumors and some nasty Kremlin infighting, the Russian President's heart-bypass operation--a procedure as crucial politically as it was medically--had finally become a reality. At 2 p.m., after seven hours in the operating room, during which Yeltsin's heart was stopped for more than 60 minutes, the clearly relieved surgeons announced that all had gone well. Their optimism was echoed by U.S. heart specialist Michael...
...real political power, Chubais will probably retain the inside edge. In large part this will be because of his close political relationship with Dyachenko. A near contemporary of Chubais'--she was born in 1960, he in 1955--and like him highly educated, Dyachenko has emerged as a discreet but crucial figure in the presidential power structure. Her enemies--particularly Korzhakov, Yeltsin's former chief bodyguard, and the ousted national security adviser Alexander Lebed--complain loudly that Chubais is manipulating Dyachenko. In a recent interview, Korzhakov claimed that Chubais prepares key documents that Dyachenko then persuades her ailing father to sign...
...most vital questions every person asks at some point in his life: Who am I? Where do I come from? Why is there so much evil and suffering in the world? Is there any purpose to life? Science, with all its factual trappings, has failed miserably to answer these crucial questions. RAJENDRA PILLAI St. Davids, Pennsylvania Via E-mail