Word: easier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that promise was easier said than fulfilled. A decentralized University structure and a nightmarish paper trail have made it difficult to identify who exactly needs to get full-time benefits...
...that I have a few more years under my belt, I have to admit my vote is with Bob. Forget about being nuts, you've got to be crazy to run for President of the United States. Maybe it would be easier to lead another country, especially one that wasn't such an integral part of world affairs or whose economy didn't have global influence. In addition, I can't imagine any group of people being more difficult to lead than American citizens. Our cynicism abounds. Fickleness prevails. Irony thrives. Opinions shift. And we love to criticize. In response...
...told to fill out three sheets of information about yourself before you can purchase anything. There goes the impulse buy. But that's how checkout works at most e-commerce sites. And that's where about a quarter of e-shoppers lose interest. Wouldn't it be so much easier if you could swipe your Visa card and be done with...
Allenby thinks of such trends as "dematerialization." The deeper dematerialization goes in society, the less stuff there will be to discard. What's more, as society becomes more information-rich, the easier it will be to find uses for the diminishing amount of discarded materials. Maybe, with the help of brokering services on the Internet, we can generalize the principle that governs garage sales: One person's garbage is another's treasure. When that attitude goes global, the human beings of the third millennium may be able to look back on their former garbage-producing ways as a forgivable error...
...sell everything from SUVs to soda pop. Disconcerting though this development may be, it happens to come with a substantial upside; because wilderness is now esteemed as something precious and/or fashionable, wild places are more often being rescued from commercial exploitation. But if the wilderness fad has made it easier to protect wild country from development, it has made it harder to protect wild country from the exploding ranks of wilderness enthusiasts. Increasingly, places once considered enduringly back of beyond are now crowded with solitude seekers...