I had thought the only cake I could ever make was a drizzle cake: a fairly simple and decent lemon drizzle cake.
Max Cleland, minus the three limbs he lost in Vietnam, showed up in his wheelchair outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Wednesday to suggest that the president take the simple and decent step of condemning the slime that is being spread by Bush supporters against the war record of John Kerry.
Every square foot at Auschwitz was carefully calculated and measured, and the three square feet allotted to each prisoner — one-tenth of a typical barrack at the time — could be read as a sickening perversion of the Bauhaus idea of existenzminimum, an effort to calculate the exact amount of space needed to live a simple yet decent life.
While, for a given clustering, coverage is a simple, yet decent measure for clustering goodness, trying to maximize it is unreasonable, as an optimal coverage value of 1 is attained by setting C = { C 1 } with C = V, i.e., using only one cluster.
In accord with Tolstoy's idea that prosaic, everyday activities make a life good or bad, the book's truly wise characters are not its intellectuals but a simple, decent soldier, Natasha's brother Nikolay, and a generous pious woman, Andrey's sister Marya.
"In my heart, I know that a simple, decent home is the key to success," he said.
There's a simple solution: a decent case.
And, though it's not an issue that can be spun to their political advantage, they reached a simple, decent human conclusion: this is wrong.
Yields came down, prices went up, a simple "buy and hold" strategy could often provide decent returns.
Providing a subsistence safety net for all and making it simpler and more rational to save is half an answer to a sustainable and decent pensions system.
