Word: crux
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...much of the nationwide outrage that followed the invasion was inspired by an aspect of the war that was only tactical. The diffuse and directionless protest in response to the invasion was easily co-opted by a peripheral concession. Nixon learned his lesson: do not make ground troops the crux of American involvement in the war. The failure of Saigon's invasion of Laos the following February, an invasion which took place without U.S. assistance on the ground, may be the only concrete success of the protest following Cambodia...
...this country, the issue at stake is a relatively simple one: whether the American client regime of Nguyen Van Thieu will be allowed to impose its political will on the people of South Vietnam. This has been the central issue of the Paris negotiations, and it is the crux of the current stalemate. The position held by North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government in the South is that the Thieu regime must give way to a neutral coalition government which will then supervise elections in South Vietnam. But the United States has consistently stipulated that elections take place under...
Interpretation of the donor's wishes is the crux of the issue. The Supreme Judicial Court must decide whether or not donors who specified that applicants be "men only" or "women only" did so under the assumption that undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe would always remain all male and all female, respectively...
...whom died? In effect, say its opponents, amnesty would tell the man who fought or was wounded-or the survivors of the man who died-that he should have had better sense and sat out the war in Stockholm or Toronto. This is the emotional crux of the problem: Would it be fair to those who fought to forgive those who refused...
...teachers' union claims that most instructors now spend about $300 each year from their own pockets to give students books and supplies that the board of education cannot provide. Thus finance problems are sharpening the battle between traditionalists, who say history, English, math and science are the crux of a good education, and reformers who contend that these are not enough to reach restless students or keep poor ones from falling behind...