71.   It will be the first time in a decade the high court has wrestled with fundamental questions about the legal boundaries of affirmative action in employment.

72.   Like the California legislators who sponsored the bill considered last spring, the three federal judges in St. Louis said the appeals shortcuts raised fundamental questions.

73.   More fundamental questions, like how to improve the distribution of income, must be addressed eventually.

74.   Moynihan is an old-fashioned public intellectual who has dared not only to range across the subjects but also to change his mind on fundamental questions.

75.   No act touches more fundamental questions of constitutional government than does the process of presidential impeachment.

76.   On the fundamental question the two sides may never agree.

77.   Over questions as fundamental as these, scholarly opinion remains divided.

78.   So the European Union remains very much a work in progress, leaving unresolved the fundamental questions about what exactly it aims to be.

79.   So the fundamental question becomes how much longer they can go.

80.   That leaves Bloomberg watchers with two fundamental questions.