Word: gist
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...least I'm not the only one who's bewildered by Wolf's work. Phillip McKee, co-chair of the Lesbian. Bisexual and Gay Graduate Students association, which sponsored the show, told me after viewing the exhibit. "I didn't quite get the gist...
Rudenstine's decision, the gist of which is unknown at this time, will likely not affect admissions material distributed to early action applicants in December. Whether information on ROTC will appear in admission letters will "depend entirely on the timing," according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...
...gist of Mitchell's idea is to have everybody buy his own insurance. As with the original Clinton plan, his would forbid insurers to reject any applicant because of pre-existing health problems. The bill would also place limits on how much premiums could rise, in part through a 25% tax on health- insurance plans whose premiums grow faster than an approved rate. The poor would get government help to pay for coverage, with the subsidies going first to poor children and pregnant women. Funding would come partly from a new tax on cigarettes of 45 cents a pack...
This was the gist of Arthur Schlesinger's recent commencement tirade addressed to graduate students at New York University...
...evening newscast in February, but NBC, CNN and CBS held off until last week, and even then mostly gave the story short shrift. TIME briefly mentioned the case in a two-page story on Clinton haters in the April 11 issue, while last week Newsweek used the gist of Jones' charges as a metaphor for the President's governing style in a five-page critique titled "The Politics of Promiscuity...