But neither this program nor others like it around the country address the bedrock issue: public universities are turning out too few math and science teachers.

Mr. Bauer said he would not back anyone for the nomination until he saw how their positions evolved on bedrock issues.

Accommodations can be made for legitimate security concerns without keeping such a bedrock issue under wraps.

The report said commercial rents, "the bedrock issue" for many businesses, had plummeted.

Calm, learned, we're all men of sound judgment and deep scholarship here; we can talk frankly about bedrock issues.

Church reformers have used the crisis to raise bedrock issues about the priesthood, like whether women should be ordained or priests allowed to marry.

The chancellors come and go so quickly that they barely have time to find the bathroom, let alone grapple with bedrock instructional issues.

One of the city's most liberal politicians took on labor over the bedrock issue of pensions.

The plan calls teen-age pregnancy "a bedrock issue of character and personal responsibility."

The bedrock issue, Mr. Riordan said, is political power for the country's black majority.