Almost without exception, the analyses of these so-called name-your-price businesses missed the most basic point: Priceline has never run a name-your-own-price business.
One question is whether the Romneys will now, finally, realize the value of straightforwardness on this most basic point; if they do, we may have good cause to thank Gawker.
The most basic point is that service members "retire" only after 20 years in service, at which point they become eligible for a military pension (or retirement pay, as veterans prefer to call it).
Which brings us to the final, most basic point: the greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, nonreplicable properties of the written medium; the more likely it is, to adapt Dylan Thomas, to move from language rather than toward language.
Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford and the founder of its Center for Internet and Society, says that Mossberg "missed the most basic point" in a piece on copyright protection for digital material, because "nowhere in the piece did he mention 'fair use.' " Yet, Lessig said, "he also wrote an amazing piece about cell phones and how the phone companies were restricting access to the Web.
Furthermore, Hobbes's most basic point, that the fundamental justification for the coercive authority and practices of governments is peoples' own need to protect themselves from what game theorists call 'social dilemmas', is accepted by many, if not most, political theorists.
They don't understand the most basic point of worldwide experience: when children survive rather than die in large numbers, households choose to have many fewer children, in fact more than compensating for the decline in child mortality.
Realizing that training is oftentimes not the only solution, organizations such as IntraHealth International have searched for a key to improving outcomes at the most basic point of contact between the provider and the client.
It involved photography at its most basic level: point and shoot.
At its most basic level the segment is just a set of points—if you take any spatial part of it, all you have is a point or set of points.
