Word: crucially
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Harvard enters the weekend coming off a crucial 73-70 victory over Sacred Heart last Sunday. That win was not as convincing as it could have been and the Crimson certainly did not play its best basketball, but it did register a much-needed notch in the 'W' column. The Crimson had lost six in a row before its win against the Pioneers...
...100th-anniversary banquet, he lectured about Harvard and Yale law grads on the Supreme Court and in legal practice who hindered rather than helped the fight for racial justice. He warned, "Because today's law students will be tomorrow's political leaders, judges and Supreme Court Justices, it is crucial that they develop a social conscience...
When the Washington Post first reported on Wednesday morning, Jan. 21, that Starr was officially pursuing charges of an affair between the President and an intern, the White House stopped in its tracks, clutched its heart and crumpled. Hillary's reactions, both private and public, were crucial. In that sense, her calculation was clear: the presidency first, the relationship later. She was virtually alone in her will to fight. "I don't think there was a person in the White House who gave him a snowball's chance in hell, except Hillary," says a former official. "Neither one of them...
Anyone who wanted to predict the timing of the air strikes merely had to consult Richard Butler's calendar. The head of the U.N.'s Iraq inspection team, known as UNSCOM, had been telling diplomats for weeks that he intended to give the Security Council a crucial report on Iraqi compliance by Dec. 15. Delivered right on schedule, it showed that the Iraqis had been up to their usual tricks: concealing equipment that could be used to make bioweapons, blocking interviews with workers at suspicious sites, lying about sealed documents detailing the military's past uses of chemical agents...
Although the Pacific winds are a crucial boost, they are also what makes this the most dangerous leg of the journey: Right now the balloonists are headed straight for a weather pattern that could spell serious trouble for the helium-and-hot-air craft, just as it did for team member Steve Fossett, who fell thousands of feet and was nearly killed by a storm in the South Pacific during his last ballooning attempt. Shipping traffic gets pretty sparse in the vast reaches of the Pacific, and no one wants to find out how long it would take...