Word: straightforwardly
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DIED. Thomas Eagleton, 77, wry, straightforward Missouri Democrat whose 18-day stint as vice-presidential candidate on George McGovern's ticket ended with reports that he had been hospitalized several times for depression; in Richmond Heights, Mo. Eagleton, who was then in his first term as a U.S. Senator, returned to Congress, where he sponsored the 1973 amendment halting the bombing in Cambodia and was pivotal in the Senate's passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts...
...projects, created by freshmen, have also been greenlighted and are set to debut by the end of the semester: “The Ivy Bites,” a program about vampires at Harvard, and “On Harvard Time,” a hybrid between a straightforward news broadcast and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”As a relatively young organization—(literally—it’s comprised largely of freshmen and sophomores), HRTV has high hopes for its future and the gap it hopes to fill...
...relations - just confirmed Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte - to reveal that its defense spending in the forthcoming year would rise by nearly 18%, to almost $45 billion, the biggest increase in five years, and a larger increase than U.S. defense officials had anticipated. The U.S. believes that a straightforward accounting of total military expenditures - including new equipment purchases, which Beijing does not include in its report of annual defense spending - would amount to $150 billion...
Asking students to work across disciplines might be fairly straightforward; our malleable intellects lend themselves to mixing academic media, sometimes even by design. But demanding the same flexibility from a graduate student TF writing a dissertation on, say, designing the American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry” was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum...
...Even though pacing is normally under the director’s purview, in this case it seems inappropriate to assign the blame to Hughes. His direction draws crisp lines through the drama that highlight Shanley’s straightforward storytelling, and each character’s journey appears both distinct from and part of the murky moral scenery—all admirable directorial achievements...