Word: brainers
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...thought it would be a no-brainer when we began discussing it. But the more we talked the more it became clear that it was a difficult issue," said Zemurray Stone Professor of History of Science Katharine Park '72, who voted against the motion in the Faculty Council and at the Faculty meeting...
Even more to their credit, they have chosen a truly worthy cause. In fact, this issue should be a no-brainer for Harvard students on all ends of the political spectrum. It really isn't a political issue at all. There are no calls for government intervention here, no specter of increased economic regulation. All the Campaign is asking is that Harvard make the free choice to pay its employees enough money to live in Cambridge. Even those so dogmatically laissez-faire that they don't support a federally mandated minimum wage can support a living wage for Harvard workers...
...This is a no-brainer," said Councillor Marjorie C. Decker. "We have people paying taxes, sending their children to our schools. We want their vote to have a voice on what our schools look like...
...deli can perplex me for ages, and I will still often regret my choice after finally picking. So imagine my dilemma in knowing that many colleges admit half of their entering classes early, thus rushing my judgement about where and when to apply. But this decision was a no-brainer for me, I knew after visiting the August before my senior year: I was gonna be a Duke Blue Devil baby...
Sure it is. But it was also about time they got rid of the penalties, which restricted the earning power of older Americans by taking portions of their Social Security checks after they'd passed an annual earnings limit. The repeal was something of a no-brainer, says TIME financial writer Daniel Kadlec, both economically and politically. "This archaic regulation was particularly helpful in postwar periods, when GIs were coming home and looking for work," says Kadlec. "The government didn't want the jobs taken up by 'old' people." But now that the nation is rife with jobs, there...