Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Child Credits At first blush they seem straightforward: everybody gets a tax credit of $500 for each child under 17. Well...not quite everybody. There will probably be phaseouts for high-income people, as there are now for personal exemptions and itemized deductions. Parents of children between 13 and 17 may have to put the credit into an education savings account. Under one plan, the working poor who qualify for an earned-income credit could not also get the per-child credit--at least not right away. But they could carry it forward for three years and claim it, retroactively...
...meant to defend the minivan, but I see I've only maligned the sport-ute. It's hard to avoid. A car, says the cliche, is indelibly an extension of self. With minivans the extension is straightforward and uncomplicated--a means of transportation for housewives and family men (family persons?). For the upper-middle-class American man circa 1997, the cliche is undone. The sport-utility vehicle is not an expression but a denial--a carapace, a hard shell concealing the soft center within...
Happily, this was a problem NASA had foreseen. In J.P.L.'s so-called sandbox, a roomful of Mars-like rock and soil with a mock-up lander and rover, the engineers had rehearsed a fairly straightforward maneuver that called for Pathfinder to raise one petal, tilting the entire craft 45[degrees], retract the deflated bag further and then lower the petal. The signal to execute the maneuver was sent up shortly before Earth set over the Martian horizon, breaking the communications link until dawn; just before the connection was actually severed, a picture came back confirming that the command...
...Albright developed a reputation as being straightforward and a hard bargainer. She consistently pushed to get America involved in the peace process in Bosnia...
...expect to be acquitted. In detention he is tough and macho, making statements to the sheriff's deputies that come very close to self-incrimination, according to internal case memos. Prosecutors, in fact, are considering calling some of the deputies to testify. Kavinoky says Markhasev is "very candid, very straightforward." His world view, though, has been practically Dostoevskian ever since he turned 15 and learned a secret about his father that the family won't discuss. The hard-working student with good grades was transformed overnight. Now, says Kavinoky, "he sees that the weight of the world is against...