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Here's the crux of the matter: while the cost of health care has risen about 10% a year recently, the cost to small businesses has gone up at about twice that rate. Many owners stop offering coverage or push costs onto employees, who then opt out. Basically, big companies with thousands of employees get better rates because the underwriter's risks are spread out. One catastrophic illness is easily absorbed. But one big-ticket illness in a pool of 10 or 20 people can make premiums unaffordable...
...crux of this she-said, she-said debate is a stack of interviews locked in the Harvard Archives, accessible only to those with Gilligan's expressed permission. Releasing this raw data may finally put an end to two decades' worth of scholarly speculation about the validity of In a Different Voice...
Today the crux of the Scouts' case against Dale is that he is a "gay-rights activist" who won't be able to "communicate scouting's moral values." In fact, it's difficult to imagine Dale sleeping in a tent at all these days, much less inveighing against gays around a campfire. Last summer, before his lawyers made him stop talking to reporters on the record, Dale joked with one that he was happy not to have to wear the uniform, "a cotton-poly blend." He lives in lower Manhattan and works as ad director of POZ, a magazine about...
...used to be one of these people who would feel great angst over the lack of interest in national news displayed by many Americans. However, poor little Elian Gonzalez radically changed my mind on this subject. Is this issue important? Yes. But the other day I arrived at the crux of the issue. A friend of mine, for whom I have the utmost respect in terms of keeping up with current events, flipped off Tom Brokaw's special afternoon update in favor of the highly intellectual Fox show "Real TV." Seeing a 300-pound Marlin pull...
...crux of the movie's plot, though, is the existence of an elite society whose laws supercede all others. The Skulls' motto is, "A Skull above any other," although they tend to use each other's power and status to advance their own agendas instead of fostering a sense of brotherhood and loyalty. The movie illustrates a fact that many people know already: Groups such as secret societies and their cousin organizations, final clubs, are quickly going the way of the dinosaurs...