Word: importantly
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That one declaration would be of far greater import than any of the parameters of any settlement. On finality hinges everything...
...student body is absurd. If any of the other 6,500 undergraduates had an opinion, he or she might have replied to one of 200,000 letters sent by the committee to canvass community opinion. But common sense tells us that these trees died in vain. Decisions of such import are aided not by check-boxes and form letters, but by open, deliberative discussion...
Until recently, Dreier and his fellow Republicans had managed to separate the two issues. Cash-rich, labor-hungry Silicon Valley companies have been pushing Congress to make it easier to import programmers and engineers rapidly. To satisfy the Valley, Congress wants to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas for the second time in two years...
...slow-witted, henpecked husband (Tony Haygarth) have shown her prisoners what happens to a hen who hasn't laid eggs: it becomes a chicken with its head cut off. This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky...
...working its way into circulation. By year's end the U.S. Mint hopes to have about 1 billion of the dollar coins bouncing in our pockets. And unlike the Susan B. Anthony dollar of the 1980s--a wimpy, woefully misshapen quarter--the new Sacagawea dollar has the gravity and import of the pound. It looks and feels like something you might see in an Old West saloon, perfect for a nation that worships its frontier past. (It's no accident that an Indian princess and scout decorates the face...