Word: key
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...commitment to defying political convention and reaching voters in new ways were key to President Barack Obama’s victory last year, the president’s campaign manager David Plouffe told an audience at First Parish Church last night...
...just as the Wildcats did at the end of regulation, Harvard squandered a key power-play opportunity in the final minutes of overtime...
...Kessler played well tonight for us,” Stone said. “She was big in some pretty key spots…There was one post in the third period that was a little scary, but we didn’t give them awesome looks on the power play, which was really good...
...unpopular causes over the years, including representing Elián González's father in his effort to return his son to Cuba. Craig helped defend his law-school classmate Bill Clinton against impeachment, but he broke from the Clintons in 2007 to back Obama and became a key player in his meteoric rise to the presidency...
...terms of definitive progress, the Obama Administration will end the year having made little more headway than its predecessor: there will be no international climate pact this year, and the deadline for a nuclear-arms deal with Russia will slip into 2010. China offered no concessions on key issues like trade imbalances and human rights. (In fact, its authoritarian government prepped for Obama's arrival by detaining still more dissidents.) Elsewhere in the world, North Korea remains defiant, and Israel - spurning Obama's requests - has announced further settlement expansion. (See pictures of life in the settlements...