Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what triggered the Bushes' conditions, scientists have made extraordinary advances in just the past decade in understanding what goes wrong in autoimmune disorders such as Graves' disease. Their discoveries, driven in part by the intensive study of the AIDS epidemic, reveal that the immune system is not a single straightforward defense system but many elaborate systems whose cellular members constantly patrol the body looking for friends and challenging foes. "The immune system is very like the brain -- it has to recognize everything," says Dr. Howard Weiner, associate professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School. "Every virus, every piece...
...October, Rudenstine will be officially installed as president in an elaborate and tradition-laden University ceremony. The immediate transition, Bok says, is more straightforward...
...says the transition process itself is relatively straightforward. "I just don't show up one morning and he's here...
...realizes the tremendous importance of human values, and does his job in a simple, straightforward, direct way that minimizes the pernicious effects of administration," says Scott. "He has tried very hard not to overlawyer the place...
...rebellion against Saddam, their bickering underscored just why such backing has not materialized: with no coherent leadership at its head, the uprising was a prescription for Iraq's unraveling. Thus the U.S. and its allies preferred to remain spectators to the insurrection. They continued to hope for a straightforward coup that would replace Saddam with a member of his establishment flexible enough to reconcile with the allies but steely enough to hold the fraying country intact. "Iraq is a violent political culture," said a senior State Department official. "In the long term, maybe it could get by without a tough...