Word: simplest
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...most vehement attackers deny that the "Take Back the Night" rally is a political event." But what is "empowerment," but a code-word for abortion rights, universalized day care and the celebration of "liberated mothers" and their bastard children? Even taken at its simplest meaning--that of helping women to feel more secure about themselves--"empowerment" has nothing to do with actually preventing women from being beaten or raped...
Windows emulation is restricted to Microsoft's "386 Standard Mode." This compounds the performance problem and results in a Windows system that loses its usefulness beyond anything but the simplest of applications...
Many workers remark that even the simplest concerns magnify in importance. "You're so hungry," Herne remembers, that anything tastes good. Herne tells of an old "regular" who cleaned out garbage cans collecting discarded beans and rice and anything else "edible...
...where his name still conjured respect rather than condescension toward the no longer voguish -- but Edward Albee has labored without the New York limelight for nearly two decades. If there is justice, that will end this week, when his stunning Three Tall Women opens off-Broadway. Out of the simplest and most familiar material -- a woman of 90-plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess -- Albee fashions a spellbinder. Just when he exhausts the potential of naturalistic melodrama, a brilliant gimmick, part special effect and part structural...
...slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please get up, Daddy!" When he died, Mrs. Evers noted in her testimony, Medgar Evers was working for the simplest things: to have black school-crossing guards, to make it possible for blacks to try on hats and clothes in department stores...