41.   But it evades a more basic question, some attorneys general say.

42.   But it is an answer to the most basic question in presidential politics.

43.   But Kibbe and several other experts say that inspectors would never have left a United States plant without getting to the bottom of such a basic question.

44.   But never does anyone ask the basic existential questions a lot of us would like to ask.

45.   But it is only in the last decade that the most basic questions about these camps have been clearly answered.

46.   But one undeniable truth is that many basic questions have simply never been answered in a satisfactory way.

47.   But many of the most sophisticated banks have forgotten to answer basic questions about their services.

48.   But the approaching oil boom of Central Asia has raised some basic questions more starkly than before.

49.   But the basic question is not whether to improve education for most children but how to do it.

50.   But that controversy and the basic question of whether volunteer efforts really help are unlikely to surface amid the hyperbolic outpouring at Philadelphia.