Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says Harvard's tourist load grew as a result of publicity from the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40, but he feels there is a simpler reason for the increase in visitors...
...Harvard Yard last week, Frank J. and Geri R. Caspers of Philadelphia said they were motivated to visit the Yard by a far simpler event--the tour bus stopped...
...have been debating tax-reform alternatives in front of packed auditoriums across the country on what they are calling the "Scrap the Code Tour." They both hope to turn the public's visceral anger at the IRS into a willingness to replace the existing, complex tax code with something simpler. In Armey's case it's a single flat tax on income; in Tauzin's, an across-the-board national sales tax. But because reinventing the tax code is more complicated than bemoaning the intrusiveness of the taxman, the sessions have focused mainly on railing against the agency...
Good writers have made great literature out of simpler stories than this, but they have done so by creating nuanced characters and by sensitively describing complex emotions. Old Scores instead offers one-dimensional characters whose actions seem logical only in Delbanco's brain. Delbanco's underdeveloped characters and general lack of clarity make many parts of the story utterly baffling...
...persists because I was too young to notice that the rich were getting richer while the poor lost out, that money that Reagan could have allocated to AIDS research or education was being diverted to a bloated defense budget. In part, too, this image persists because it was a simpler time: with the Cold War not yet won, the policy spotlight focused not on health care, affirmative action and gay rights, but on Star Wars...