Word: straightforwardly
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...decision to graduate in three years was less straightforward for others...
Apart from examining course requirements—in a sense the most straightforward aspect of a curricular review—the committees for pedagogy and academic experience must examine issues that will require more fundamental changes to the Harvard culture. Advising is particularly problematic. The solution will not simply involve changing the locus of the adviser (from the House to the concentration, for instance), and certainly nothing will improve if a greater number of adviser meetings are mandated with the current crop of often unmotivated, unknowledgeable and uninspiring graduate students. A concerted effort must be made to encourage the entire...
Ferrell will set down his pom-poms and forego his SNL persona as an overenthusiastic cheerleader in order to make his remarks straightforward for today’s festivities...
Media accounts of the coup were seemingly straightforward. The Washington Post reported that Iran had been saved from falling into communist hands and that the communists were blaming Brigadier General H. Norman Schwarzkopf "for alleged complicity in the coup." The paper said Schwarzkopf, whose namesake son would lead U.S. forces nearly a half-century later as they drove the Iraqi military out of Kuwait, had visited Iran "but only to see friends, the State Department said." TIME reported: "This was no military coup, but a spontaneous popular uprising...
...getting this book out now and scheduling an appearance on 60 Minutes for last Sunday, Glass pre-empts an unflattering film, Shattered Glass, slated for release in the fall. He still might have done better to produce a straightforward memoir. But you can see his problem. If he ever tries to publish nonfiction again, who's going to believe him? --By Richard Lacayo