Word: gist
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...tock of the ill-fated flights, The 9/11 Report steps back to examine the origins of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, various U.S. administrations' treatment of the terror threat, and the way the terrorists organized the September 11 attacks. Though not always completely clear in the details, the gist comes through well enough: a complete failure by multiple administrations to take bin Laden and terrorism seriously. It includes such devastating truths as "[The attack] was carried out by a tiny group of people with trivial resources operating from one of the poorest, least industrial of all nations... In some...
...That's the gist of the war of words between Tom Cruise's production company and Paramount Pictures following news from the film studio's parent late Tuesday that it was severing ties with Cruise/Wagner Productions after 14 years...
...them is trying to poke holes in my discovery or to refute the matter, if only so very superficially; just one of them [Hilbert] acknowledges it, insofar as he is seeking to partake in it, with great fanfare, after I had initiated him, with much effort, into the gist of the theory ... Heartfelt greetings, yours, Einstein So Einstein spent Christmas Day in his Berlin apartment. That morning, he took out of his satchel some of the drawings that Hans Albert had sent him and wrote the boy a postcard saying how much they pleased him. He would come for Easter...
...turns out that Gleevec was a Cinderella story - a perfect matching of drug to cancer. The specific cancers for which Gleevec has wrought such miracles - chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) - rely pretty exclusively on a pathway that Gleevec targets, making these diseases ideal victims for a targeted therapy. But breast, lung, colon and prostate cancers, the leading types of cancer in the U.S., aren't as accommodating...
...relations during his interview. In one question, Kelly said he was asked to take on the role of a presidential adviser and describe the strengths and weaknesses of several different scenarios regarding illegal immigration. The interview questions were designed to be thought-provoking, he said. “The gist of the questions was not to see what you knew, but more how you think and your value system,” Kelly said. “They know you are smart, they know you are an expert in a field, they know you are passionate, but they want...