Word: key
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This issue has never defeated anyone in the American political process." Nor has it ever launched a presidential campaign. Back in January even McCain's top advisers hoped to persuade him that campaign-finance reform was a loser issue. They quietly commissioned a poll of G.O.P. voters in four key primary states to prove their point. But when the results came in, they showed 60% of voters saying campaign-finance reform was important, vs. just 15% saying it wasn't. "Voters want the system changed," says John Weaver, McCain's political director...
...trial or miss crucial filing deadlines? What if they can't afford forensics tests or, as in the case of Roberto Miranda's lawyer in Nevada, fail to investigate their cases aggressively? Miranda was freed in 1996 from death row after 14 years when a judge found that a key witness had not been interviewed...
...higher stock prices as a sign of economic health when the buoyant markets really are just the result of bargain hunting by a lot of speculators. Already there is evidence that Thailand, the first Asian domino to fall two years ago, is ready to declare victory and backpedal on key promised banking and other reforms. If the speculators lose faith, they will take their profits and run, and emerging markets will sink again...
...summer school students, now that you've got your room key and ID card, it's the perfect time to haul in the goods, making your palatial suite worthy of summer study...
...more mindful of the fact that most Palestinian refugees originally fled homes in what is now Israel. But the episode reflects a mounting problem for Barak. "U.S.-Israel relations may face a period of tension because of the false expectation that Barak?s election will be the key to breaking the deadlocks in the peace process," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "The disputes between Israel and the Palestinians over issues ranging from the status of Jerusalem and the future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to the question of refugees are exceedingly complicated and there...