Word: basic
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...minority hill tribes, as a safety valve for impoverished and landless lowlanders. Nestled next to the Cambodian border, the remote, rugged hills are Vietnam's version of America's Wild West. Along Highway 14 signs of the frontier are everywhere: clapboard houses hastily built, tin-roofed general stores offering basic goods and people busily clearing land, building and working the fields...
Their strengths lie within their preparation of more basic foods. It's when HUDS tries too hard constructing such meals that they make entrees that end up in the dish room...
...McCain and Feingold thought they had a good idea who their enemies were. McConnell never pretended to see the smallest merit in anything they proposed. To him the debate is a basic free-speech issue: if people want to spend their money supporting candidates or making TV ads about a candidate's environmental record, that is their prerogative. But as the week began, it was not McConnell who posed the greatest threat. It was, of all people, Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, the most earnest, make-the-world-a-better-place senator...
...Many Europeans believe that Bush hasn't made clear exactly what he's opposed to. Although Bush's criticisms concern the form of the Kyoto accord, it's clear that his objections are more basic. Many Europeans believe that the real objection may not be the Kyoto Protocol itself, as much as the very idea of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions...
...buildout accelerated, phone companies were creating a painful paradox in which their new technology generated a lower return on investment. The payoff for Internet traffic was particularly dismal, since data can travel across the street or around the world for the same basic charge. And this forced equipment suppliers to slash their prices, putting a further squeeze on their profits. "For the first time in history," says Tracey Vanik, a technical director of the RHK consulting firm, "there's no penalty for distance"--compliments of the Internet...