Word: straightforwardly
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Powell: It's usually the Exhibit A of Powell getting his knickers pulled. It was a clear, straightforward case where we were reviewing our North Korea policy. And in response to a question at a press conference, I gave an answer which was a little ahead of where the President...
...always be so simple, however. For one thing, some cancers leave bigger footprints than others. In the urine of a patient with bladder cancer, for example, more than half the genetic material could derive from the tumor, making detection relatively straightforward. The sputum of a lung-cancer patient, on the other hand, is much more diverse; less than 1% of its DNA is traceable to cancer. Clearly, other genetic clues will have to be developed, and Sidransky is already tracking down several of them. The challenge, to his delight, never ends...
Young, 51, head of the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., was born on New Year's Day at the precise midpoint of the 20th century. Back then, the thinking about spinal-cord injury was straightforward: When a cord is damaged, it's damaged. There's nothing that can be done after an injury to restore the function that was so suddenly lost...
...strict pro-lifers the issue is straightforward: an embryo at any stage of development is a human life, worthy of protection, and any kind of research that entails destroying an embryo to harvest its cells is immoral, no matter how worthy the intent. It involves using people as means; it turns human life into a commodity and fosters a culture of dehumanization that we accept at our peril. "We have just enough time to ensure that we remain the masters of our technology," warned Henry Hyde, "not its products...
...them cautious with other writers? songs. Mann and Weil had written "Only in America" as a scathing denunciation of civil inequity: "Only in America/ Land of opportunity/ Do they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me." Leiber and Stoller rewrote the lyric as a straightforward, Horatio Alger anthem. The meaning was lost; worse, it was twisted...