Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people created by a giant corporation to do its dirty work.) Thoroughly researched, simply written, beautifully laid out, DNA for Beginners is in fact more serious than most popular science writing. With Van Loon's magnificent drawings to grab the reader's attention, the text can remain simple and straightforward and avoid the eye-catching exaggeration all too common in science journalism. Authors Rosenfield precision with an English brevity of expression...
...peacekeeping mission than the sight of the guns of the New Jersey pounding the hills outside Beirut to protect U.S. ground forces there--a scene re-enacted only days ago. This newest layer of violence in a country already "blessed" with more than its due, is a straightforward and compelling case for withdrawal...
...verbal or mathematical "aptitude," as advertised, but rather a high school senior's lifelong exposure to good books and magazines and analytic thought. In short, the SAT is more likely to reflect socioeconomic status and school quality than intelligence. The same experts argue that the Achievement Tests are more straightforward and hence less unfair, because they can be studied for like any final. And one other argument--that the Achievement scores will be a more precise way to distinguish among the Harvard applicants who are crowed at the top of the SAT score scale--seems eminently logical. Presumably...
Orza elaborates on the difference between information and advice. "I think some things are very straightforward, like how do you put in a diaphragm? Or, what are the side effects of the Pill? But with the grayer areas, like, should I be involved in this sexual relationship? I do feel uncomfortable: I don't give advice. I listen a lot, I try to make the person find their own answers...
...word article were taken verbatim from the manuscript. This brief borrowing of copyrighted material without the author's consent, said the court, was "fair use," a concept that allows limited quotation by journalists, critics, teachers and researchers. Dissenting Judge Thomas Meskill found a problem in the straightforward nature of the paraphrasing, however. "Copyright laws protect originality," he wrote. "They thus offer protection against a work that is substantially an unoriginal appropriation of the copyrighted work...