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...revelation in 1985 of Safran's use of CIA funds as well as a similar case the next year, sparked a reevaluation of the ethical aspects of academic scholarship. The crux of the reevaluation was not the questionable nature of the sponsor for this research--America's chief covert bureau--but the agency's requirements that manuscripts must pass a prepublication review and that the source of the funding not be made public...
...filtering process is the crux...
While student eyes are on the much-publicizedball, administrators and organizers are touting asthe real crux of the celebration the more intimatehouse dinners and symposia...
...crux of their criticism was the volumeof Brinkley's scholarly work, which--whileimpressive for an historian his age--is less thanthat generally expected of successful candidatesfor tenure in the History Department, the facultymember said...
...crux of the Government's case, however, is more prosaic than murder. It details a Commission-endorsed scheme to rig bids and allocate contracts to Mobinfluenced concrete companies in New York City's booming construction industry. Any concrete-pouring contract worth more than $2 million was controlled by the Mob, according to the indictment, and the gangsters decided who should submit the lowest bids. Any company that disobeyed the bidding rules might find itself with unexpected labor problems, and its sources of cement might dry up. The club dues, actually a form of extortion, amounted to $1.8 million between...