With differences in the House and Senate approaches, the homestead exemption is expected to be a crucial topic for the conference committee.

None of the books got higher than a "C" on adequate coverage of crucial topics.

The Second World War was always a crucial topic for Soviet filmmakers.

The "history of the book" considers crucial topics such as the commercial aspects of reading, the cultural and social aspects, and so forth.

In the process, Democratic staff members in the House and Senate said this week, other crucial poverty-related topics were neglected.

The campaigns are issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, fair trade, environmental sustainability and other crucial topics.

Those crucial topics were left to the major behind-the-scenes operators, many of whom are now cashing in.

The author moved on to a crucial topic within the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiation: "the right to return" .

A third criticism is that no real progress was made in 1997 on crucial topics such as foreign policy and internal security.

For all his skillful management of foreign affairs, President Bush remains oddly limp on a crucial topic: economic aid to beleaguered Russia.