Word: gist
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Currier administrators posted a safety advisory in the House which, although it captured the gist of what happened, did not provide students with a full description of the incident...
Some 20 years ago, my sermons in the Harvard chapel were ended because of one which was "religiously incorrect." The gist of that talk to students was the following: "You come to college to study the sciences to learn how to manipulate people. You come here to learn...
...doesn't affect our goals for the season," was the gist of the Harvard response. Indeed, as a non-Ivy game, it means nothing for the Ivy title, and it isn't the Yale game, so who cares...
Craig Mundy, the veteran Microsoft exec who oversees all noncomputer consumer products, lets the younger team members lead the discussion. Gates quickly flips ahead through the deck of papers and within minutes has the gist of their report. He starts rocking, peppering them with questions that segue from the politics of their potential partners, the details of the technology, the potential competition and the broad strategy. The answers are crisp, even as Gates drills down into arcane details. No one seems to be showing off or competing for attention, but neither do any hesitate to speak up or challenge Gates...
...problem ran deeper. Mel just didn't seem to care about us, or about anything, for that matter. When asked what advice he would give ninth-graders, the gist of his response was, "I really hated school." On the contribution of the arts to education: "I'm sure it's vast...