Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton prepared to jet to Beijing this week, the most crucial diplomacy in Asia was taking place over the telephone wires between Tokyo and Washington. It led to a $2 billion flyer by the U.S. Treasury to support the Japanese yen, which briefly pumped up stock markets and threw the Clinton Administration into the treacherous depths of the international money markets. It was the first time in three years that the U.S. had jumped into the currency markets, and it put Washington's credibility--and that of Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin--on the line in the global currency crisis...
...guest on such shows as Crossfire and Rivera Live, Klayman calmly and routinely proposes the most outlandish conspiracies. Isn't it possible, he has said, that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who died in a plane crash in Croatia two years ago, may actually have been shot to death? The crucial point for Klayman is that Brown died the very week he was supposed to be deposed for a Judicial Watch suit alleging that seats on Commerce Department trade missions were sold to big campaign contributors. "They may have sent him to Bosnia to keep him from being deposed," Klayman suggested...
...ocean has long been the lifeblood of the New England economy, and all along the coast fishing, whaling and shipping ports testify to the crucial role the sea has played in the history of the region...
...said early response is crucial to protecting the libraries during adverse weather and said the university is studying its libraries "disaster preparedness...
...Uncle Sam's software failing grades. "Under Koskinen," the California Republican growled in a voice that could give anyone what-if nightmares, "government performance has fallen from a D minus to an F." At current debugging rates, 13 of the 24 largest agencies won't have fixed their most crucial computers in time. Among them...