Search Details

Word: crucially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...legacy game anymore. The once amusing pastime is gathering dust in some White House cupboard of the mind, because the footnote is threatening to swallow Clinton. Even if he stays in office--and it would be foolish to count him out--the scandal has ruined his Administration's crucial sixth year (typically a two-term President's last best hope for getting big things done) and perhaps his seventh and eighth as well. Clinton's bid to define his place in history--by launching the age of postdeficit politics with a small but activist domestic agenda--is all but over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakdown on the Road to History | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...tough military posture that finally led to a cease-fire after 3 1/2 years of bloody fighting by Serbian, Muslim and Croatian forces in Bosnia. While Bill Clinton and U.S. negotiator Richard Holbrooke got the credit for orchestrating the final accord, they applauded Chirac's crucial role and agreed to hold the signing ceremony in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia: The Hunt For Karadzic | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...says Jack Pannell, a press aide to Georgia Congressman John Lewis and a five-year retreatant. Barbara Carr is a school administrator who first went to a monastery two years ago, after her husband of 20 years left her and she developed breast cancer. Retreat for her was a crucial time for praying, crying and writing. Others find piety sometimes takes a backseat to curiosity ("I look at the monks and think, 'I can't believe you're not having sex,'" says Nolan) or humor ("We started calling it the show--'You going to the 6 o'clock show?'" says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Thee To a Monastery | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...avoid that sorry fate? You'll want to weigh two crucial questions. One: Is the gadget digital? In short order, virtually all data will be rendered in computer language to move fluently through the Net's electronic sprawl. Analog phones and plain-film cameras will be about as worthwhile tomorrow as Betamax movies are in our VHS world today. To be sure, you'll still pay extra to go digital: ordinary Canon cameras, with their quaint loadable film, run from $200 bargains on up the price scale, while the digital Canon Sureshot costs $699 at New York City's 47th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Own Network | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...James Carney says that the conventional wisdom about midterm elections -- that they are won by the turnout of party loyalists, i.e., the religious right -- will keep the GOP moderates relegated to their customary place in the wings (just ask private citizen William Weld). "Winning over moderate voters will be crucial in the presidential election," he says, "but in the midterms, you win by getting out your core voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP Moderates: Stuck in the Middle | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | Next