Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would consider supply-side economics, although he only seemed to learn them during the election campaign in 1980. You've heard this a million times from people writing memoirs: it's a little difficult to engage him in a substantive debate. He had a few relatively simple and straightforward ideas. And in fact I didn't see him much as the second term progressed. ((Chief of staff)) Don Regan kept saying, "You've got to see him much more frequently. I'll arrange it." But he never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often...
...honesty exams, which were given to 3.5 million job applicants last year at a cost of $5 to $15 each, can be surprisingly straightforward. A questionnaire published by Reid Psychological Systems of Chicago asks test takers to mark whether or not they recently "overcharged a customer for personal gain" or "took something from a store without paying for it." Many job applicants freely reveal their transgressions. "People put things on written tests they wouldn't tell their mothers," says Larry Audler, vice president of personnel for the New Orleans-based D.H. Holmes department-store chain...
...style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after...
Arafat's public commitment to cease terrorism was straightforward: "I repeat for the record that we totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism." Arafat also made a significant concession of substance in his Geneva speech to the U.N. He rejected absolutism in favor of "realistic and attainable formulas that settle the ((Arab-Israeli)) issue on the basis of the possible." That is new and welcome from the P.L.O. Specifically, Arafat said the Palestinians would settle for two states in the Holy Land, one Palestinian and one Israeli, borders undefined. Those who do not trust him will recall the words...
Sollors says the agenda for Harvard's Afro-Am Department is straightforward for the next few years: to hire a musicologist to replace Eileen Southern, professor of music emeritus, to find social scientists and finally, to strengthen the study of history and literature...