There is a long and tortured legal history surrounding mountaintop mining, but the essential question is this: Is dumping mine waste into streams a violation of the federal Clean Water Act?
"The essential question is the trade-off between the risks and the benefits.
The essential question is: How is Israel's security a vital United States interest?
In any creative partnership, the essential question is who does what, and here the conjugal partners are candid about their activities.
But the essential question is: why do we need to claim Beethoven as black at all in order to think more deeply or differently about his music?
longhand?" But the essential question is: "Have you found a space, that empty space, which should surround you when you write?
Sometimes pledges simply don't come through, and so one essential question is whether the college, and Sanders, knowingly inflated the promises.
As is usual in science, the essential question is whether the conclusion carries conviction, and this is conditioned by the strength of opinion regarding alternative conclusions.
Betty Golden San Francisco, Feb. 6, 2008 To the Editor: Re "The Cooper Concerns" (column, Feb. 5): David Brooks's essential question is "Can a person truly change?" The year 1993 in Clinton history was long ago.
For Deutsche Telekom, the essential question is whether it wants to acquire Qwest so badly that it is also willing to take on the less attractive U S West, and at what price.
