Word: straightforwardly
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...Bolton, who has been openly hostile to the U.N., to be U.S. ambassador to the organization was a gutsy move [March 21]. In my dozen or so years in the Washington foreign-assistance field, as a political appointee and a career diplomat, I found no individual more honest and straightforward than Bolton. He was a tough boss and a straight-shooting friend and colleague who always let you know where you stood. He's an inspired and excellent choice...
...this measure, the Schiavo case is straightforward. The patient has no chance of recovery, her husband has asked for her feeding tube to be removed, and Schiavo's doctors and the Florida state courts have approved that request. In the U.S., though, religion and faith-based politics intervene in a way that baffles Europeans. "It would have been handled very differently in Europe," says Wim Distelmans, chairman of the Federal Commission of Euthanasia in Belgium, where euthanasia is permitted if performed by a doctor after an adult patient clearly states a wish to die. "Because of the politics...
...Tighe family's fact-finding mission was relatively straightforward. Three years ago, Jimmy Tighe, then 48, of Cleveland, Ohio, fell down some stairs at his father's house and was knocked unconscious. The ambulance crew accidentally threaded a breathing tube into his stomach, leaving him without oxygen for the 12-minute ride to the hospital. When his brothers were told three months later that Tighe was in a persistent vegetative state, they mentally replayed conversations they had had about death four years earlier, after another brother had been shot and killed. "We all said...
...very determined and a man of action. Bush confounds leftists because he is not a handwringer. The remarkable thing is that he can keep his equilibrium in the face of nonstop criticism from his opponents. Is it because the media are afraid that he really might be great - this straightforward, plainspoken man from Texas? Carroll Hoke Wichita, Kansas, U.S. Klein analyzed Bush's reliance on his gut reactions more than on tortured reasoning. I wonder how much that is true of us all. Is our reaction to Iraq a knee-jerk response to Bush himself rather than a mature reflection...
There was nothing very special about the message that made Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel the most hated couple in cyberspace. It was a relatively straightforward advertisement offering the services of their husband-and-wife law firm to aliens interested in getting a green card -- proof of permanent-resident status in the U.S. The computer that sent the message was a perfectly ordinary one as well: an IBM-type PC parked in the spare bedroom of their ranch-style house in Scottsdale, Arizona. But on the Internet, even a single computer can wield enormous power, and last April this...