Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard victory was crucial after the disappointing tie to Brown on Wednesday night...
...have been collected they are laid flat on the bed of the press, where the text is meticulously spaced out and held together by flat strips of metal called 'furniture'. The arrangements of this spacing material form the almost invisible choices of margin and indentation--these are the most crucial work of the printer. As Hulsey puts it, in setting a line of a poem the difference between its looking right and looking wrong is sometimes less than half a point. A few assembled stanzas laid out this way glimmer like distant, crowded constellations. Then the cylinders, wheeled into action...
...hand, the legacy of '66 lives on in '99 with the Backstreet Boys. When in the interim has a white quintet been so crucial to pop music? Some critics have optimistically observed that the Backstreet Boys might take their music in hand and morph from tools of industry to pop-craft artists, just as the Beach Boys went from the straight-up teen fun of "Surfin' USA" to the angst of Pet Sounds and the mastery of "Good Vibrations." Then again, Brian Littrell is no Brian Wilson, and such a turnaround seems unlikely...
...prosecutors, who were telling her she'd be nuts to bring such a weak case. The prosecutors had misgivings because while the FBI believes it has extensive evidence that Lee illegally transferred classified information to unclassified computer systems, it has no proof that he made the crucial next step: passing that information along to China...
...fact remains that the substance of Jesus' teaching is the basis on which many Christians establish their faith. Its piercing good sense, imaginative eloquence, the breathtaking stringency of his ethical demands and his simultaneous patience and compassion are crucial to the intimacy that so many establish with this long gone man. The promises he makes in the Gospel of John, in the resonant (and quite literal) King James translation, have strengthened endangered men and women from the terrors of Roman martyrdom till today--"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father...