Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jayne Anne Phillips' wondering, musing first novel raises such questions without ever explicitly stating them, in a way that suggests another fine family por trait, last year's During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase. In a man ner that seems simple and straightforward, though its workings are intricate enough, the author sketches the histories of four people in Bellington, a town she places in West Virginia. They are Mitch Hampson, born in 1910, a soldier, heavy-equipment operator, scrambling business man; his wife Jean, born in the mid-'20s, deeper and more...
...patterns in nine states that raised the drinking age shows an average 28% drop in fatal nighttime crashes involving under-21 age groups. Polls show 77% of Americans favor a drinking age of 21. Sums up New Jersey Congressman James Florio: "The 21-year-old drinking age is a straightforward and proven way to save lives. The public understands this...
...time of the first NSC meeting devoted to START, in April 1982, the State Department's idea of a straightforward trade-off between the MX and the SS-18 was dead, and the advocates of a low throw-weight ceiling seemed to have the upper hand. On the eve of the meeting, Perle circulated a paper that criticized State for advocating an approach that offered "the appearance but not the reality of significant limits on Soviet strategic power ... and [that] would drive the Administration to a repetition of past mistakes...
...approach used to paint this depressing picture is straightforward narrative, an approach apparently out of style these days. Woodward, quite simply, wants to let the facts speak for themselves, and he describes in generally chronological order Belushi's rise from a Wheaton, III high-school wimderkind to ace comic of Chicago's comedy troupe Second City, to blubbering star of NBC's Saturday Night Live, to the mega-star of Animal House and half (with partner Dan Ackroyd) of the Blues Brothers, and finally to his death...
...looked for all the world last week like a gas station or a bank or a rent-a-car company trying to lure customers by offering discounts on television sets or getaway weekends. Instead, it was A T & T signaling that the once straightforward business of providing long-distance telephone service has drastically changed...