Word: simpler
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...other things well too, notably in the scene in which, as he is interrogated by the police, he comes to realize that he is their chief suspect. Grief, outrage, incomprehension, terror -- what a rich mixture of emotions he registers in a matter of seconds. Jones may have a somewhat simpler line to play in the movie, but he is a marvelously incisive actor, and he brings his character right up to the edge of the demonic without falling into the psychotic abyss. He is playing the role of a man playing a role -- tough omnicompetence -- and the little flickers...
...bill. Many corporate plans seek to steer patients to physicians who join a health-maintenance organization (HMO) or so- called preferred-provider organization (PPO) by cutting reimbursements to employees who insist on consulting "outside" doctors. But this is supposed to be offset by other benefits: fewer and simpler (or maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting the ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they...
...resulting social upheaval could transform one of the nation's most divisive political debates by making abortion far more difficult to regulate. And eventually it could mean abortions will become simpler, safer and more accessible not only throughout the U.S. but also around the world...
...Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of RU 486, and his French colleagues describe the successful tests of the no-injection method in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This new regimen," they conclude, "is simpler and potentially allows greater privacy than any other abortion method." In a tough accompanying editorial, the Journal brands efforts to block use of the drug in the U.S. a "disgrace...
Like Thoreau's simpler life on the shores of Walden Pond, Restic takes refuge in the simple life of the Ivy League. And like Thoreau, he is trying to convince the rest of society that his way is the best...