"The basic issues are as simple as enough hooks, a good mirror and good lighting, which means incandescent and fluorescent, but masked," said David New, vice president for creative services at Barneys New York.
You quote an expert on school violence as saying "the basic issue in these middle-class schools is competition -- who has the biggest car, who is the best athlete, who is in the right group -- and students are under intense pressure, unlike the urban school, where often the basic issue is just survival".
As much of the ensuing debate seemed to be devoted to who was to blame as to the basic issue itself.
Again, this is another area fraught with methodological difficulties that I won't go into here obviously, but the basic issue is just simply as follows.
Some analyses say that fast-developing India is performing worse than some of the poorest countries, such as Liberia and Haiti, in addressing the basic issue of hunger.
"Slow Going on Stem Cells" (editorial, Oct. 2) again sidesteps the basic issue, sloughed off as the opinion of "religious conservatives," namely, what is the human embryo?
The controlled induction of dendritic bundles, as reported here, offers a new in vivo model for investigating mechanisms of bundle formation, as well as basic issues of their network circuitry and area and species specialization.
Then, influential perspectives on intentionality that have emerged in both phenomenological (Section 3) and analytic (Section 4) philosophical traditions are sketched, so as to highlight basic issues about the relationship of consciousness and intentionality, and provide some of the background against which they have been understood.
It has here been shown, however, that the later development of the scientific atomic theory has clarified many philosophical problems that, as basic issues, divided atomism in the strict sense from other forms of atomism.
