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If we axed all of the researchers who have received funding in the past six years then I suspect that not a tear would be shed by voters, and the universities wouldn’t miss them either.
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The word for today is… crux (noun) - 1: a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question 2: an essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome 3: a main or central feature (as of an argument) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Latin speakers used crux to refer literally to an instrument