Word: vital
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...anticrime platform. In 1994 ATF recommended 10,000 defendants for prosecution, of whom 47% were previously convicted felons. The bureau's critics also sidestep the fact that on the same day as the Waco raid, an ATF investigator, working with a New York City bomb-squad detective, found the vital shard of evidence that broke the World Trade Center bombing case. Agents from the bureau's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently took down a murderous street gang and sent a dozen members to prison, many for life terms. And last month Charlotte agents played a central role in capturing...
...little more than a public-relations exercise designed to cover an "embarrassing" policy that "puts the USDA in the position of being anti-consumer." A press release was issued in February 1994, and the inquiry languished. But now, with the 1996 election looming (and California's 54 electoral votes vital to Bill Clinton's prospects), the USDA has again promised a new rule. "Within a week," says a usda spokesman. "Maybe in two months," Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman told Senator Barbara Boxer last week...
...they would just get married and have kids. Twenty-five years later, that perception has not changed as much as it should have Although a woman--or a man, for that matter--may take time off to care for children, that does not mean that she somehow loses a vital part of what made her a desirable employee in the first place. After having her child, she will likely return with more experience and perspecctive--valuable assets for any forward-looking company...
...about two dozen wealthy Democrats behind the project, a roster that includes entertainment mogul Barry Diller; investment bankers Steve Rattner, Felix Rohatyn and Barrie Wigmore; and entrepreneurs Mitch Hart, who started Electronic Data Systems with Ross Perot, and Sandy Robertson, who assembled much of the California support so vital to Clinton's '92 drive...
...bring all your friends' e-mail addresses so you can create the en-masse mailing list that really will keep your old high school crowd up to date. Any manuals lying around on how to use computers will also be a big help; computers are vital here at Harvard, and you'll be missing out on a lot if you don't know...