Word: basic
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...reform services, he painted his quest to do so as heroic: "The radical decision is usually the right one. The right decision is usually the hardest one. And the hardest decisions are often the least popular at the time. We are at our best when at our boldest." His basic message: I will do what I think best. Illogically, it brought the house down. Which was nothing compared to the tumult Clinton sparked. His rock-star magnetism lives: everywhere he went, delegates mobbed him to get a handshake or an autograph, and just like old times, he charmed the locals...
...effects, as Dr. Wiseman and his colleagues at the Laugh Lab can attest. They seem to have lost their senses of humor. After hearing thousands of jokes, nothing seems funny to them anymore. "There's a massive number of variants of jokes," Wiseman says. "But I've heard the basic structure of pretty much every single one." Oh, he still is capable of laughter, but it's a dry husk of a laugh, a hollow been-there, heard-that chuckle designed to make you think you're funny even when you know you're not. Is it possible to burn...
...respond to critics who say that clerics should stay out of politics? We don't like to call it politics. It's human rights, it's basic rights, it's not politics...
...result in a default on the country's foreign debt obligations. The PT candidate had, in fact, called for such a default in his early years on the campaign trail in the late 1980s, but since then has, like many erstwhile socialists from the developing world, accepted the basic ground rules of the international financial system. Still, investor anxiety has sent Brazil's currency, the Real, into its sharpest decline since it was allowed to float freely against the dollar...
...basic small or large chicken wrap will now set students back $3.95 or $4.95, though they can pay an additional 75 cents for white meat...