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...addition, the flood of innovation that helped spur the productivity resurgence has created many new job opportunities, and more than a few fortunes. But changing technology has also reduced job opportunities for some others--bank tellers and assembly-line workers, for example. And that is the crux of a whole new set of challenges...
...argued the campaign—in the form of mass e-mails and opt-out cards delivered to student mailboxes—is misguided altogether, while others have defended HRL’s campaign, saying they are only raising awareness about a policy students should be familiar with. The crux of the debate, however, should not be about whether students should know about an obscure policy—they should—but about the disingenuous way in which HRL advertised the policy...
...student loans to help recruit more math, science and special ed teachers to underserved areas.” Similarly, a number of states—like New York—have added various incentives to the same effect. However, neither of these steps has worked to address the crux of the teacher-shortage issue. Given that student debt is “unmanageable” for 38 percent of aspiring teachers and 55 percent of aspiring social workers, all existing federal and local loan programs fall short. Larger, university-funded PSLRPs targeted specifically at those entering public service careers...
...tied up with reproduction is laughably ignorant. The link between sex and pregnancy is the very reason that Shvarts would have needed to take abortifacient drugs each month if this project did take place—because unprotected sex leads to pregnancy.Shvarts knows this of course. Summing up the crux of her argument—that there is a mistaken conflation of sex and reproduction—she wrote, “It is the intention of this piece to destabilize the locus of that authorial act [of sex for reproduction], and in doing so, reclaim it from the heteronormative...
...fact, she finds it unconscionable—as if I am a traitor to all women. The crux of her argument rests upon my alleged inability to understand the plight of women as it stood a generation ago. According to her, I am morally obligated to vote for Hillary...