Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pickering get picked on? At least one Democrat was straightforward about the reasoning behind his vote. The New York Times reports that Charles Schumer admitted that Pickering was “a decent and honorable man and certainly not a racist.” But Schumer went on to explain that the vote was about demonstrating the unacceptability of “stack[ing] the courts with Scalias and Thomases...
...according to a pair of reports in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, that conventional wisdom may be wrong. In the first study, doctors in Britain and Australia found that infants conceived with both straightforward test-tube methods and a more invasive technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in which sperm is injected directly into the egg, have an 8.6% risk of major birth defects--including heart and kidney abnormalities, cleft palate and undescended testicles--compared with the 4.2% rate in babies made the old-fashioned...
...None have been that straightforward,” Crosby says, noting that no one has explicitly asked for his number. “Some people have been, like, ‘Oh yeah, if you’re ever in the area, give me a call,’ but there haven’t been too many people in the area who’ve had the guts to ask me out. I’m still hoping...
...organized crime, corruption and illicit trade - have contributed to a decline in the past 20 years. Before the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, that country and Iran controlled the world caviar market. They invested heavily in maintaining fish stocks, and tracking the source of any shipment was straightforward. In the post-Soviet era, though, that system collapsed and private entrepreneurs moved...
...Larry Summers, shake, stir, let sit five to ten years and voila, right? Unfortunately the chemistry is not quite so straightforward...