Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easiest things in life are not always free...
...Rothenberg has been grappling with two problems: how to put her fragments together, and how to do it in terms of color. She has never been a "natural" colorist (black, white, duns and a range of silvery grays, punctuated with the occasional splotch of crimson or ultramarine blue, came easiest to this tonal painter), and quite often her efforts to introject color into her work looked like mere tints imposed on a monochrome structure...
...knowledge is obviously of great social value, the only question is what's the easiest way to get there," says Gilbert, who last week was awarded one of Harvard's prestigious University professorships...
...history of drug or alcohol abuse to carry concealed weapons. State officials have already been flooded with 14,500 applications for concealed-weapons permits; they expect 150,000 Floridians to apply in the first year alone. The law, which takes effect Oct. 1, makes Florida one of the easiest states in the Union in which to acquire a gun; eleven other states have similar laws. Moreover, a loophole in the Florida law also enables any resident to carry a handgun without a license as long as it is in plain view...
Some of these people would have fallen for a shaman, any fool who claimed, say, he could bend spoons with his mind. But Rinpoche was not a charlatan. By all accounts, he was brilliant, he was the real thing. The easiest conclusion to draw, looking from the outside in, is that he was an astute businessman. His devotees ran to the upper middle class, white, with impressive academic credentials. They dressed like Dharma bums in the beginning, but soon the teacher had them shaved, suited and cravated. If they did not exactly turn their pockets inside out for their teacher...