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But the Knicks, who trailed by 77-70 headintointhethe fourth, got a critical boost from their bench.

Carter Roberts, president of the World Wildlife Fund,said the move by Obama would provide a "critical boost" to efforts to stop the traffickers.

The Senate committee's Republicans, who had pulled out of the inquiry in September 2009, savaged it as a Democratic witchhunt – a critical boost for a CIA that wanted to avoid the narrative that it was pitted against the Senate.

Obama received a critical boost from black voters, who made up 15 percent of the electorate, up from 11 percent in 2008, and who backed him by 96 percent to 4 percent.

Mr. Jackson is often credited with giving MTV a critical boost in its early years (the "Thriller" album came out a year after the cable channel was born), but it's equally true that it was MTV that made Mr. Jackson a megastar.

Once teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and irrelevance, the Republican National Committee has raised more than $110 million over the past 15 months and retired more than half its debt, accumulating large cash reserves that could give Mitt Romney a critical boost later this spring as he intensifies his campaign against President Obama.

While the climate issue may have hurt the Sweden Democrats, it's given a small but critical boost to the Greens, junior coalition partner to the Social Democrats.

Less noticed and perhaps more important is that Obama's September gains in voter preference match a modest but critical boost in his job approval ratings, as Gallup reported on Thursday.

Trevor Ariza, a former spare part for the Magic, supplied a critical scoring boost to help lead a Lakers comeback in Game 4. Derek Fisher, derided as too old by some fans, hit two series-changing 3-pointers in that victory.

If they promote the app and rally their own social graphs to score more commissions, they could give Operator a critical growth boost.

If connected to other populations by individual dispersal, local populations recovering from catastrophic disturbance might receive a critical demographic boost, reducing their risk of extinction (the 'rescue effect'– Brown and Kodric-Brown 1977).