Word: easiest
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...decide that you really want all the options available with the new Macintosh Plus, it might be easiest to sell your old Mac and buy a new Mac Plus. If you go off campus where new Macs are more expensive, you can sell your used Mac for a reasonable price--and that might come close to covering the difference between the $1600 for a new Mac Plus (from Harvard) and the almost $800 total upgrade charges...
While a few percentage points in test accuracy entail the prospect of tens of thousands of false positive results and falsely labelled individuals, screening suffers from another kind of subjectivity. It is politically easiest to propose or implement screening of groups that are already defined and over which the government or an employer already has direct power--as in, for instance, the AIDS testing of ROTC cadets, the drug testing of federal employees or the testing of the employees of an estimated one quarter of the nation's largest private firms. There is no medical reason for such choices...
...best pioneers. While reluctant to return to NASA, Fletcher is now gung-ho. "I didn't want the job," he says. "But the President persuaded me. He's not called the Great Communicator for nothing." Fletcher sees his short-term priorities as fixing the shuttle ("Ironically, that's the easiest part," he said), improving NASA's management practices, and then rejuggling a backlog of shuttle payloads. He intends to set up a panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences to oversee the shuttle redesign, and has already appointed other outsiders to review the agency's management...
...months after the incident, students, shelter officials and Cambridge politicians are saying that Harvard's insensitive posture toward the area's homeless population hasn't changed significantly. "The University took the easiest way out by taking the grates off and realizing that the media would not, and could not, concentrate on the more serious issue of homelessness," says Schrager, who volunteered for the Food Salvage. "Harvard wasn't caring, only clever...
...Rajee agreed to her marriage after she had poured kerosene over her clothes and prepared to set herself on fire: "It is a crude method and perhaps not suitable for a college girl like me, but it was the only way I could think of and also the easiest and cheapest, so I decided...