Word: simpler
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Alumni agree that life was simpler in their day; there was less political activism and less competition for positions of rank and power. Occurrences of racism were negligible. "The same changes you notice in the rest of society have affected Harvard students...narcissism and almost neurotic idealism," says Whiteside. "There was far less social concern...political correctness was unthinkable...the politicals were a narrow cult, just as the jocks were...
...contrast, the world from which Kate Gaffney-Kozinski escapes is seen as numbing and corrupt. Immigration, corporate push and interlocking alliances have threatened the simpler traditions of mateship and the bush. There, the wounded Kate finds honest work as a barmaid at Murchison's Railway Hotel in a place called Myambagh. She acquires a flair for pouring beer, a taste for fattening food and a liking for a chap nicknamed Jelly -- not because of his shape but because he has a way with the explosive gelignite. Amid what Thomas Keneally labels "a safer Australia . . . where people called lunch dinner...
...this part of some diabolical conspiracy to reduce women to the sum of their private parts? No; the surface reason is simpler. "It's economics," says writer-director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally . . ., This Is My Life). "Movies cost more than ever. What studios look for when they sink $20 million into a movie is some way to get their money back. So they put one of 12 male stars...
...people. Unless, of course, Eastwood had larger ambitions. That made sense to them. The more Eastwood denied it, the more convinced became those who breathe the rarefied air in Bel Air and Beverly Hills that Eastwood was grooming himself to become the next Ronald Reagan. It was far simpler than that. Eastwood felt his town government wasn't working, and he was willing to sacrifice his privacy to try to fix it. Eastwood, like the Man with No Name or Dirty Harry, acts decisively on his convictions...
...sign that a heart attack is imminent or already in progress. Doctors have two options: inject the patient with drugs to dissolve clots in the coronary arteries or resort to angioplasty, an operation that involves opening the blood vessels by inserting and inflating tiny balloons. The drug treatment is simpler than angioplasty, but which is more effective? Two reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine come down on the side of the balloons. In one study, angioplasty reduced by half the risk of death or another heart attack six months after treatment. A third study found...