Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just plain embarassing. Apparently hell-bent on proving her talents, Gray Sexton weighs down her prose with forced and self-conscious metaphors. When discussing an episode concerning her mother's housemates, Gray Sexton writes, "As if they were bad meat, I wanted to be rid of them." Her straightforward narrative tone is compromised by her somewhat inappropriate style. Gray Sexton is writing her memories, yet sometimes her life reads like a bad novel...
...work-rule changes we're seeking are clear and straightforward. Employees will continue to work in their areas of assignment, but we need to be able, for example, to assign a waiter to an extra table when a colleague is out sick, and to have bus boys sort the silverware from the china. Unfortunately, the union's own work rules and practices simply don't permit such efficient and effective use of employees' time...
Theoretically, the refund process is straightforward. Students simply check a box on their term bill and then write a brief letter to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III stating their desire to receive a refund. This works fine unless students decide to request a refund later in the year, when they discover (or are reminded) exactly how their money is being wasted...
...pretty straightforward application," he said. "It's not worth getting stressed about. If you don't get [the endorsement], it's not the end of the world...
Haiti's instability doesn't dent U.S. security. If Clinton were more confident of his leadership, he could offer a straightforward, unadorned justification for intervention, a course that would acknowledge pursuing a sympathy rather than an interest, a preference rather than a need. By building on the junta's brutality, which he mentioned last week, Clinton could have said something like this...