Word: crux
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...fact, the act says colleges cannot "discuss or agree with each other on the prospective financial aid award to a specific common applicant for financial aid." Until 1991, representatives of the schools met annually to discuss specifically financial aid packages for individual students. Those meetings were the crux of the Justice Department 's original objections, the primary reason the schools were seen as conspiring to fix prices and the center of a recently concluded trial where MIT defended the practice...
Nevertheless, the crux of the matter is summed up in a foreword by three directors of the show, Henning Bock of the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, Henk van Os of the Rijksmuseum and the National Gallery's Neil MacGregor: "If Dou, Drost and Hoogstraten are the true creators of paintings that have for years delighted and inspired us ((as Rembrandts)), it is clearly time we took another look at them as well. Rembrandt remains a giant . . . But he is a giant surrounded no longer by pygmies, but by artists of real stature, whom we ought to know better." What seems...
What lies at the crux of the matter is not what happens when a woman says "no" and is ingored. All agree this constitutes rape. What is under consideration are situations in which a woman does not "say no," but nor does she say "yes." The new proposed definition is an attempt to take into account situations in which no clear "no" was spoken, but ones in which it was nevertheless signified...
...which they will--there will be nice, long dialogues, with no cameras. The group and the politicians should probably set ground rules at the start: The group has an hour to express its concerns or ask its questions. The politician gets the same amount to respond. This is the crux of the idea--a willingness to engage in substantive, unfettered, unedited, unrehearsed discussion. The people who lead these groups, whether students or activists, must believe the spectacle is only a threat, and that the debate is all important...
Gilbert says, however, that although curing and preventing disease is the crux of medicine, scientists have other motivations to experiment in biology...