Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very close competition. Boston University, M.I.T. and Tufts all tied for second place with 72 points, two points behind Harvard. Briane Keane had two first place finishes, while Will Geffries had "the best racing day of his life," said Horn, taking four first places. Tony Friedrich also won a crucial race in his first major trophy meet...
...politics could be popular among Republicans and push him through the primaries. But he should beware that they could backfire in a general election, when Jews--absent from the Republican primaries--will back the Democratic candidate. Connally has tossed away any possibility for Jewish support, a factor that was crucial to the Republicans' victory in the presidential race of 1972, when many Jews voted conservatively...
...lack of intensity was reflected by penalties in some crucial situations, such as a fumble recovery by defensive end Tony Finan that was negated by the defensive line jumping offsides. "We had some foolish penalties," Restic said...
There were technical differences between the bulbs that, Edison's partisans say, made his superior. For example, Swan's carbon rod was fairly thick, Edison's filament was thin. But a crucial difference was that Swan stopped with inventing the bulb, while Edison took what would now be called a "systems approach"; he saw that the bulb had to be only one of a whole series of inventions. To make it in the first place, he and his assistants had to produce a more complete vacuum than had ever been known before. Then they had to devise...
...Arens, the idea of cannibalism is "a crucial boundary marker" between cultures: those who consider themselves civilized always manage to see cannibalism among those they consider uncivilized. "On this issue, despite other accomplishments," he writes, "anthropologists have emerged as little more than erudite purveyors of a pedestrian myth about other times and places...