Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council also debated the distinctionbetween teaching and research, which Dowling saidis often not as straightforward as it appears. Forexample, he said, science professors who supervisestudents in the laboratory are engaging in bothteaching and research...
...week before Crazy for You, which is touting itself as a new musical for awards purposes but is in fact a reworking of the theme and score of the Gershwins' 1930 Girl Crazy, Broadway was graced by a straightforward revival of 1956's The Most Happy Fella. By the end of April, those shows are to be joined by Man of La Mancha (1965) and Guys and Dolls (1950), and a belated transfer of the off-Broadway hits March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), now paired in a single evening. In addition are three "new" musicals recycling songs...
...tender domesticity of the English Canzonettas contrasts with the broad sweep of the cantata, but Watkinson and Wilson still demonstrate their ability to exploit evocative possibilities in these short gems. The Canzonettas are fairly straightforward arrangements of strophic songs by an English poetess, accompanied by a setting of an excerpt from act II, scene 4 of Twelfth Night. Yet even if their tone is more modest than that of the cantata, their dramatic development is comparable. Haydn's delicate melody-lines are lovingly phrased by Watkinson, and Wilson audibly revels in the remarkably independent keyboard writing. The fortepiano passages contain...
...technical challenge is relatively straightforward. The goal is to find substances and processes that can replace CFC-based systems without doing further harm to the stratosphere -- an endeavor that is well under way. In fact, it may turn out to be easier than anyone expected. Except for medical aerosols, some fire-fighting equipment and certain metal-cleaning applications, there are now effective substitutes for virtually every ozone- depleting chemical. Some cost quite a bit more, and others pose different, if less severe, environmental problems. But in a surprising number of cases, the new processes are actually cheaper and better than...
...pushing the FDA to adopt a more strenuous review of drugs after they have been approved for marketing. Such postapproval monitoring is already being tried in Canada, Britain and Sweden, where officials can tap into data from a national health-care system. The reasoning behind the push is quite straightforward. Clinical trials typically include a few thousand people and can therefore pick up only the most obvious and prevalent side effects. Once a drug enters the market, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people start using it, often for sustained periods of time -- when more subtle or long-term...