Word: crucial
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...requiring proctors to report their students, Harvard first-years lose someone they can confide in--a factor that Wechsler describes as crucial for a student first tasting independence...
Because the interview helps schools to differentiate between many outstanding applicants, it is crucial to the process. Since the interview is so important, most schools require students to travel to their campus...
...professors accused the U.S.--which has said the Vieques site is crucial to continuing military preparedness--of perpetuating a colonial policy detrimental to Vieques' residents...
George W. Bush's critics are crowing over his performance in a foreign policy quiz. TIME Daily invites all those smarty-pants, and our readers, to test their working knowledge of eight situations crucial to U.S. foreign policy. (Click on each question to get the correct answer...
Like so much else in the Microsoft antitrust case, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact both stated what many suspected and left crucial details until later. The findings: Microsoft is indeed a monopoly, possessing a stranglehold over the PC desktop. It has abused the power, and that abuse has harmed consumers. The findings so closely paralleled the government line that you might have thought they were actually written by lead DOJ attorney Joel Klein. But that just shows Judge Jackson was paying attention, says TIME's Chris Taylor: "He's shown in this ruling a real grasp...