It will be crucial that the workforce is developing skills to cope in an environment where business activities and IT are intrinsically linked and, bearing in mind the potential for cyber attack, securing IT systems will be a major priority.
And that may be one crucial difference that separates ours from millions of other sun-like stars in this part of our Milky Way galaxy.
But other leaders will be crucial and that's why I would include the likes of former England captain Phil Vickery and current Wales skipper Ryan Jones.
But on pitches that are likely to be low and slow, perhaps the most crucial contribution will be that of off-spinner Saeed Ajmal and in particular how it matches up against that of his England counterpart, Graeme Swann.
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But for once the main action will be that crucial vote in the Lords.
Such a move could be crucial for airlines that have already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in preparation for reduced restrictions.
Right now, only about a third of undergraduate students are graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math -- areas that will be crucial if we expect to complete the work that has been done by these folks and compete for the jobs of the future.
To advocates for assault victims, that would be a crucial step forward, given Defense Department findings that many victims are of lower rank than their assailants and most fear retaliation if they report the incident.
The outcome of the courtroom clash could be crucial for the company that owns Newcastle United.
The next few sessions will be crucial to determining whether that was the bottom for 2011, which I think is very possible.
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And if Obama and his fellow Democrats don't rebut that narrative and defend the IRS, they'll be surrendering crucial ground in the battle that has roiled American politics since the financial crisis: the battle over whether Washington regulates too much or too little.
In other words, making an inspired leap, Wald posited that there must be a crucial difference in the pattern of damage between those bombers that returned and those that did not.
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What we said David in our report was we recommended a series of confidence building measures and we said that the timing and sequence of those measures are crucial, that can be decided only by the parties and they must begin that process of decision immediately.
"I am quite convinced that one of the really crucial pieces that has to be filled in are these concepts of how the states will relate to each other in practical terms concerning security and in practical terms concerning economic issues, " she said.
Since this is an investment that must be repaid by electricity consumers, it is crucial that they receive an increase in the quality of service commensurate with the cost.
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Competence in running the economy is likely to be one of the crucial judgments that influence their decision.
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Sheffield's defeat at Newcastle in their penultimate game proved to be the crucial slip-up that cost them the title.
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"It is crucial that one be the first, " said Judd Burstein, Thum's attorney.
Tinkering with the dark arts of small-screen advertising with Graph Search could be a crucial way to do that.
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But Mrs Clinton argues that she has won another battleground state that will be crucial to Democrats in the autumn (as well as Ohio).
But the crucial element may be that, in contracting manufacturing out to Chinese factories, GE lost control over, and input into, the foundation of the manufacturing process, the assembly line.
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In a five-game series, that could be crucial.
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These latter measures are a response to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but right now, given the very high levels of unemployment in parts of Europe, it is crucial that there be no further additions to the regulatory burden.
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If a CIO can collect information about the key process steps that would be crucial to better performance or information needed to make better decisions, then he will know when one of the parade of capabilities that are coming along will actually make a difference two the business.
In particular, the thorny and emotive issue of whether families will have a veto on whether their relative's organs will be donated after death is going to be one of the crucial points that the government will need to have absolute clarity on when it introduces the Bill - clarity that has to some extent been absent so far.
That case was crucial in determining that feeding tubes could be regarded as medical treatment.
Crucial to this will be ensuring that all 17 England players remain available throughout the game.
It is also the crucial area that must be addressed by the new immigration bill.
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Ultimately, that performance could be crucial for union workers who are losing their jobs.
Power is also a barrier to the open and deep feedback that can be so crucial to personal learning.
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