Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these issues pale before the newly revealed miracle of fertilization, an event so dizzyingly complex that researchers say the more they know, the more they wonder that it works as often as it does. The actual merger of egg and sperm turns out to be one of the most straightforward steps in the process -- and the easiest to duplicate in a test tube. The events that occur before and after that union, scientists say, are where the real troubles...
...most part, the acting dean says that Harvard will try its best to introduce the students to their new school in a straightforward manner. "A visiting committee last year that looked at our freshman year said we were coddling," Mackay-Smith said. "I take issue with their terminology...
...most part, the acting dean says that Harvard will try its best to introduce the students to their new school in a straightforward manner. "A visiting committee last year that looked at our freshman year said we were coddling," Mackay-Smith said. "I take issue with their terminology...
Congress supplied Kessler with the ammunition for his consumers' crusade last fall, when it passed the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act. The law, which sailed through both houses unopposed, requires new, straightforward labels for all foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables. While the changes will not become mandatory until May 1993, the FDA has until November of this year to come up with proposals for what the new labels should say. In addition, public pressure is mounting -- from such groups as the American Association of Retired Persons, the American Heart Association and the National Parent-Teacher Association -- to revamp...
...Lives will lack the salt of irony, the sense that the narrator is deluding herself about the past or revealing more about herself than she imagines. Such moments of surprising revelation never occur; Fay is without guile. Her resentment at Julia's imperious way with other people seems perfectly straightforward: "Why did she, without doing anything for anyone, inspire such devotion, while humbler, clumsier people like myself seemed doomed to do without...