Word: crucially
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Five weeks earlier, when Republican Senators misplayed a crucial gun-control vote and allowed the Vice President to break the 50-50 tie in the Senate chamber, the moment had been a political gift. House Republicans last week let him keep it. Gore can show his best outraged face at congressional inaction, but privately strategists in his camp are ecstatic. They hope that Gore-the-gun-control-crusader will bore into the lead of front runner Bush, whom they view as vulnerable because he opposes mandatory child-safety locks on guns and supports the right of Texans to carry...
...figure out how to engage the Russians, for example. And NATO will still need to rebuild Kosovo--to say nothing of devising a long-term solution to the problem of dealing with Milosevic. And for all its simple charm, the new triple-if doctrine doesn't answer one other crucial if: What do you do if American soldiers start to die in battle? Without an answer to that question, the Clinton doctrine may be as short-lived...
...Dell was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to death. In his 11 years on death row, supporters managed to persuade institutions as far afield as the Italian Parliament and the Pope to raise doubts about his guilt. They pointed to evidence that the crucial blood test may have been botched and that O'Dell may have been bloodied, as he claimed, in a brawl elsewhere. But prosecutors insisted the case against him was solid, and after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last appeal by a 5-to-4 vote in July 1997, O'Dell was executed...
Resnick does not seem to understand that the cornerstones of the modern university, tenure for professors and financial aid for students, are crucial precisely because of how they counteract the imperatives of the market. Somehow, perhaps from the fact that Harvard often looks like a breeding ground for investment bankers, Resnick has concluded that Harvard is a "business" and that he is a "consumer." Nothing could be more wrong. In short, a university's purpose is to educate students, not to "serve consumers...
Resnick does not seem to understand that the cornerstones of the modern university, tenure for professors and financial aid for students, are crucial precisely because of how they counteract the imperatives of the market. Somehow, perhaps from the fact that Harvard often looks like a breeding ground for investment bankers, Resnick has concluded that Harvard is a "business" and that he is a "consumer." Nothing could be more wrong. In short, a university's purpose is to educate students, not to "serve consumers...