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...aptitude tests that come in, they're out of their mind!" And Faith Baldwin: "Anyone with common sense would know that the 15 of us are much too busy to read the manuscripts the students send in." And Cerf again, on mail-order selling in general: "The crux of it is a very hard sales pitch, an appeal to the gullible." Then why does he lend his name to the school's hard-sell proposition? "Frankly, if you must know, I'm an awful ham -I love to see my name in the papers...
...tension will subside as immigrants become more anglicized and bettereducated. Many sociologists are convinced, however, that the crisis will gather for the next decade or two as the sons of ill-educated colored immigrants graduate from British schools and start to compete with whites for higher-paying jobs. "The crux of the matter is whether we can provide jobs for those educated under the British system," says Heath. "The present immigrants have jobs now. But their children will expect something very much better than what their fathers have...
They also believe that their ranks will swell only while they are in the process of making revolution. The crux of their ideology is that the revolution can't wait...
...your article certain opponents of legalization expressed the belief that one intoxicant, in this case alcohol, was enough for our culture. But you also pointed out that youth has created its own culture or "counterculture." This is the crux of the issue. Adults are trying to force their culture down our throats, and with it their intoxicant, alcohol...
...measure both of the changes Cambridge is now experiencing and of the agony which those changes are causing is what has come to be called the City's "housing crisis." The crux of the problem is simple: Cambridge's housing stock is not large enough to accommodate all the people who want to live in the City. Generally more affluent than the older residents, the newcomers have bid up the price of housing...