Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what was going on," says Virginia L. Mackay-Smith, assistant dean of first-year students. "We were concerned about what this was going to mean for a student's academic progress. We decided to do things that we hope will make it easier for freshmen--and a little more straightforward...
...rules for a successful negotiation are pretty straightforward. All sides must want to make a deal, and everyone must come away with something. Last week it looked as if most of the parties in the complex hostage drama were at least talking about a deal. But satisfying everyone poses such a monumental challenge that any solution will take a long, long time -- if it comes...
...like poetry. It won't touch the stuff. Nor is it very fond of novels. Theoretically, it could cope with some of Hemingway's short, simple sentences, though it could never make anything of long, convoluted passages from Faulkner. But give the Toshiba AS-TRANSAC computer a thoroughly dull, straightforward instruction manual, and it will earnestly chomp its way through page after page. What it does with those pages is the amazing part. The Toshiba machine has linguistic ability far beyond the powers of past generations of computers: it can translate, at least crudely, one language into another. In this...
...finish of his furniture merely needs to be cleaned with a wet cloth. "We recommend hard use," says Nakashima. "A wood surface that is without a scratch or mar is kind of distressing. It shows no life and has no time value." His business approach is equally straightforward. "I wanted," he says, "to make furniture out of real wood without it costing that much more than you would pay in a good store." He sells only directly to customers. Prices for stock items range from $155 for a plank stool to $4,000 for a wall case...
South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, which has emerged as one of the foremost venues for new work, served Henley well in its straightforward production of Abundance, a skeptical re-examination of 19th century frontier mythology through the eyes of two mail-order brides. Henley's underlying theme seems to be the way people change during the course of life, often swapping roles with intimates: the exuberant pioneer gradually becomes a timid drudge, while her starry-eyed friend hardens into an adventurer. The final scenes do too much too fast and too vaguely. But the script has the makings...