Word: crux
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...hard to pass judgment on what people did back then," says a French army colonel who is also looking to bring Brossard to justice. This remark is the crux of the novel. Does a time come when people must be forgiven for doing what they mistakenly believed was right or unavoidable? Or should evil never be forgiven or forgotten? By challenging the reader to confront these questions, The Statement is ultimately unforgettable...
Regardless of the details, the crux of the matter is simply that a shorter finals period means exams will be packed more closely together; this is likely to be detrimental even to those students who don't wind up with doubles or triples. So, we would like to recommend a solution which surprisingly was not even discussed at the CUE meeting. Shave an extra day off reading period. Everyone knows that reading period is a cosmic farce to begin with. A bloated 11 days long, reading period is simply a thinly disguised extension of the semester during which professors feel...
...crux of this debate is where the control for these programs should be." Ehrlich added, "whether it should be from the top down by people solely accountable to the College, or by students, staff, alumni and faculty in the community, all groups that make [community service] happen...
THAT WAS THE WORST HATCHET JOB ON an American politician in memory. Buchanan is the only presidential candidate willing to address the crux of American problems: falling real wages. He is willing to take on the corporate-political elite, including the media and your magazine, and those who have benefited from economic policies that are ruining the country. The information revolution is destroying jobs just like the Industrial Revolution did. Combine this phenomenon with the glut of labor and you get lower real wages. The only way to reverse this trend is to create more jobs by reducing the standard...
...killing 24 people. The so-called composite-wing policy that grouped perhaps incompatible planes at the same base was not evaluated by investigators. It was the idea of General Merrill McPeak, the service's top officer before he retired last fall. "Other investigators felt this issue was at the crux of the accident, but dared not bring it up again," Diehl writes. Instead an air-traffic controller was blamed. The pilots involved have resumed flying. "It is unfortunate," Diehl says, "when an investigation focuses on the errors made by an inadequately trained enlisted man, while ignoring other problems which were...