Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigils and rallies, and most notably last year with the fast for divestiture and the founding of the Endowment for Divestiture. And each time the movement has responded, the Corporation has backed down and the ACSR has moved closer to advocating divestiture. Last year the ACSR split on a straightforward vote on divestiture, 5-6-1 against it. The Harvard divestiture movement has inspired successful and profitable divestments by Cambridge and Massachusetts pension funds, and by universities like Michigan State, which reported that through divestment it made over $2 million. Finally, each time the divestiture movement and the Corporation lock...
...both employer and employee--would be used to retrain workers in traditional and declining industries. It's a good idea, but it should be one of many, not the only one. Military reform and industrial policy are two themes Hart has often mentioned, but rarely explained. And neither is straightforward enough to evoke passion--much less interest...
Visually unexceptional, narratively straightforward, Carpi's film is neverthe-less intricately worked out psychologically. It plays like a lovely chamber piece, and its actors work with a good musical quartet's instinctive politesse and self-effacing skill, muting individual flights in deference to total effect. Carpi may never be a Beethoven of the cinema, but he could perhaps be a Schubert, and there are few enough of those making movies these days...
...Shultz told reporters later, there had been "no movement, no change in position" on the contentious issue of intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Pressed as to whether the two diplomats had settled anything, Shultz protested, "It wasn't that kind of meeting." He described the atmosphere as "straightforward, businesslike," and said the talks had been "worthwhile" and "necessary...
...Aubuisson's solution to his nation's difficulties is straightforward: a military victory over the guerrillas. He has drawn cheers at rallies by promising on occasion that, if elected, he will deport all "leftists," a term that some rightists interpret as incorporating anyone who favors dialogue with the insurgents. D'Aubuisson talks of providing new investment incentives for business in the war-battered Salvadoran economy, and wins approval from thousands of small businessmen and farmers who have suffered grievously from the guerrilla strategy of attacking the country's economic infrastructure...