Word: role
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Music played an integral role in the service, just as it did in Wilson's life. He was an accomplished musician who particularly enjoyed jazz fusion...
...John F. Kennedy "won" his 1960 debate with Richard Nixon not on substantive issues, but because Nixon showed up on national television looking pale and nervous. The 1976 debate between Ford and Carter is remembered, not for its arguments over the state of the economy or the proper U.S. role in world affairs, but rather for Ford's strange assertion that Poland was not under Soviet domination. A mere reassuring phrase from candidate Reagan, "there you go again," was enough to stave off an issue-oriented Carter attack...
...soon as Baker arrived, there was no question who was the final authority. The former Treasury Secretary, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. presidential campaign since 1976, has become a figure of such stature that there is no counterpart to him in the Democratic Party. Sasso owes his authority to his personal bonds with Dukakis; Baker has managed the political fortunes of two Republican Presidents, and directed Bush's 1980 primary campaign. Baker, in fact, represents the rare towering figure who is an exception to the political truism that power depends on physical access to the candidate...
...world's greatest dramas. Together with Britain's Francis Crick, he solved the puzzle of life itself by discovering that DNA -- the genetic material found in virtually every living cell -- was arranged in the long, twisting strands of a double helix. Watson, 60, is once again playing a key role in an audacious genetic adventure. This week the National Institutes of Health announced that the Nobelist will lead the agency in one of the most mammoth scientific endeavors ever: mapping and analyzing all the genetic material -- the genome -- contained in human cells. Marvels Watson, who will continue as director...
...Would you accept a leadership role...