Word: straightforwardly
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...kids, he says, have developed particularly sharp eyes for bad service.) On a recent trip to a top hotel in Korea, Pokodner checked on the cleanliness of the rooms, the smileyness of the concierge and the juiciness of the restaurant's tenderloin-and-shrimp brochette. His approach is straightforward. "I act like any other guest," he says, but one who pays unusually close attention to detail. Occasionally he heads to the rest room to jot down observations, but mostly he just takes mental notes...
...events of the last two weeks are surprisingly straightforward. A petition for impeachment does not constitute foul play; it is instead a constitutional tool that places a check on the performance of an executive. No one was forced out, no one was coerced, and members were certainly not threatened. Many people chose not to run for a job that requires the investment of their entire life at Harvard, and several of those who considered running for Vice President assumed that Clay Capp, who received an unprecedented 1,500 votes in his campus-wide election, would win. While this...
...Emir and al-Jazeera's founder, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, a progressive ally of the U.S.'s, who is known to be privately dismayed by some of al-Jazeera's shriller broadcasts, started replacing members of the seven-member board of directors with reformers favoring a more straightforward approach. The board ousted founding al-Jazeera managing director Mohammed Jassim Ali, a Qatari who championed al-Jazeera's aggressive style and anti-Yankee tilt. As al-Jazeera executives see it, the channel needs to be more in tune with the demands for democracy and reform that...
...those games new ways to tell stories. So in 1997 he joined an upstart game company in Seattle called Valve; Laidlaw had heard that he and the founder, Gabe Newell, might be thinking along the same lines. "We were going to take the idea of storytelling over to a straightforward first-person shooter [game] and see how far we could get with that," says Laidlaw. They got pretty far. The game they created was called Half-Life, and right from the beginning people could see it was a different sort of animal. The first few minutes had no action...
Colleagues say leaders turn to “Marty” for his unparalleled acumen and straightforward advice...