Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IHAD a job last year sorting articles for a sociologist who was writing a book on New York City. My mission was to read newspaper articles and then put them in manila folders with labels like "Homelessness," "Ethnicity" and "Transportation." Although most of my folders had straightforward labels, one of them was mysteriously marked "NIMBY...
...straightforward yes or no to reunification is too simple in so complex a constellation. NATO and the Warsaw Pact will have to shed their military dimensions. The European Community will have to define its attitudes toward Eastern Europe. The two Germanys will want to expand the web of existing agreements between them, an interweaving of interests that neither can unravel without harming itself. In years to come, perhaps a German confederation within an expanded European Community may emerge, but in an age of new perceptions, it may not matter what it is called...
TRACY CHAPMAN: CROSSROADS (Elektra). The follow-up to her smash debut album in 1988 is . . . well, just like the first. Chapman's voice stays strong, her music soft, her message angry and often oppressively earnest. Straightforward and worthy but generally without excitement...
...researchers measured fitness in a straightforward way: they put people on a treadmill, set them walking, and periodically increased first the incline and then the speed of the treadmill until the walkers could no longer continue. The subjects were grouped into five different fitness levels based on their performance and followed for the next eight years...
...This is a small straightforward job involving asbestos around piping," said John M. Price, an industrial hygienist with Harvard's Environmental Health Services...