Word: straightforwardly
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...understandable that advocates of troop withdrawal would look for indirect ways to start drawing down the American presence in Iraq, since straightforward proposals to bring troops home have no chance of passing Congress. But disguising policy proposals as sentimental appeals to the well-being of American troops does little to advance a substantive debate over the course of American foreign policy. It is a cynical overcompensation for the accusation that opponents of the war don't "support the troops...
...Brave One, which played at the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in theaters Friday, you can guess that this rosy notion of the city is doomed. So is David, since he simply doesn't fit the profile of a Jodie Foster movie. Foster doesn't do straightforward love stories; indeed, she may be the only actress in Hollywood history who has built a two-decade star career without ever playing a traditional romantic lead. (Sommersby was about as close as she got.) It's no surprise that, within the film's first 15 minutes, David is killed...
...paid to be blunt (at least not in public), but here's the undiplomatic truth: no one involved in negotiating with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il over nukes expects a smooth process. "If you're asking whether anyone thought the road to total disarmament would be completely straightforward," says an official who until recently was closely involved in the so-called six-party talks, "with no backsliding, no new demands, no different interpretations of timetables or whatever, then no, the answer is, of course...
...been living in an age of melancholy for at least two decades. Outpatient treatment of depression rose 300% between 1987 and 1997. But while it's tempting to blame our culture--fear of terrorists, too much caffeine, living by BlackBerry--there's a more straightforward explanation for the boom in dejection. In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association published a new definition of depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--usually shortened to DSM--the compendium used by mental-health professionals to make diagnoses. The new definition was a radical departure from the old one, which had described...
...issue is straightforward enough, even if few countries have ever had to deal with it on this scale before: thanks primarily to its thriving export industries, China has $1.4 trillion (and counting) in its pocket and has to put it somewhere. For years, the investment of choice has been the riskless solidity of U.S. Treasury bonds. But as the dollar drops and higher returns can be gained elsewhere, China has begun to eye more alluring places to stash some of its cash...