Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter continued: "Despite the attempts of many to overly intellectualize this matter, the basic issue is straightforward and simple: Should the University honor the memory of those who fought to preserve a system based on slavery and rooted in racism...
Many of these trips are tame, straightforward introductions to Harvard. Other visits include rowdy trips to local bars, final clubs and parties. On each trip, recruits have to negotiate the challenges of a weekend away on a campus full of eccentrics...
...addressed the Palestinians with the following words: "We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you--in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men." In action too Rabin believed in strongly pursuing a straightforward--if often difficult--policy. When it came to fighting the Arabs, he was prepared to go to great lengths (in 1987, as Defense Minister, he is alleged to have instructed his troops to "break the bones" of Palestinian demonstrators in the intifadeh). But he was likewise willing to go enormous...
...hardware or software. And while there's nothing especially vaporous about the 26-year-old global computer network known as the Internet, the estimates of its size that have been tossed around during its meteoric rise to celebrity over the past two years have been pretty mushy. As seemingly straightforward a question as how many people use the network has produced answers that range from 3 million to 60 million. Most of those numbers are little more than guesses, some highly educated, some less so. But none are substitutes for the statistically defensible research demanded by investors and publishers...
Because the university did not have straightforward policies on either institutional or individual conflicts of interest, one official said, the suit was difficult to defend against...