Word: crucially
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...Everyone did a great job competing," Herlihy said. "We can now go into the Penn and Princeton weekend, the two most crucial regular season matches for us, with a lot of confidence...
Gore and Gephardt, of course, are not the only people with an interest in their mutual success. Bill and Hillary Clinton believe Gore's election is crucial to validating Clinton's presidency, especially if they also get the House back--thus undoing the humiliating G.O.P. sweep of 1994. Clinton, an adviser says, "wants to be Gore's campaign manager, and he may have to fight Hillary...
Last week should have been a bad one for Tom Daschle. The Senate minority leader watched his party get flattened by the Republicans on five crucial impeachment votes. According to the partisan handbook that has so often held sway over these proceedings, Daschle's final defeat--when the G.O.P. rammed through its road map for the next week--should have sent him to the microphones. There he should have struck an aggrieved pose and bloviated freely, blaming the vindictive Republicans for shattering Senate comity in their hell-bent effort to destroy the President, or some such transgression. But instead...
...even folks who buy access sometimes have a strong case. "There is no issue that is less attractive for us to go to a trade dispute on," admits USTR spokesman Jay Ziegler, referring to Lindner's political connections. "But the fact is, the banana dispute has evolved into a crucial test" of the enforceability of rulings by the World Trade Organization, which, to no avail, ordered the E.U. to drop its banana restrictions by Jan. 1. Rising concern about the U.S. trade deficit--up 50% in 1998 and expected to rise as much as 80% in 1999--has critics clamoring...
...away, the excessive cost of running--as high as $20 million for the primaries alone--has prompted several candidates to all but declare their candidacies already to get a head start on fundraising. With a more condensed primary schedule in 2000, gaining an early edge in fundraising is more crucial than ever...