"Yellow" is one of Martin's few straightforward lyrics.
That economic hit could be held to 1.4 percentage points with a few straightforward changes.
Some viewers who might feel too much at sea in the bumptious exhibition might cling to a few straightforward, representational drawings.
With a few straightforward changes, his budget could be transformed into a politically plausible center-right package that would produce a fiscally sustainable welfare state while addressing the country's structural economic problems.
For a while it looked as if almost all of them would fall into a few straightforward families, leading Leonard Dickson, an American mathematician, to declare in the 1920s that group theory was dead.
The new management team for the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, which is based at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., said it was gearing up to be NASA's overall safety watchdog organization by looking at a few straightforward problems.
The incentive for educational bodies of all sorts is that foreign students provide welcome tuition fees and, for universities, cut-price teaching help.One reason why would-be immigrants choose these roundabout routes to the rich world is that there are few straightforward ones available.
It takes Ms. Handler about 50 minutes to assemble the write-up, which is a few straightforward paragraphs explaining the details with the occasional gag as sweetener (The stables are closed "on Wednesdays, in the event of bad weather and on Horse Christmas").
And yet, other than a few straightforward news reports on the Guatemalan intervention, there has been no significant media discussion, no storm of criticism or commentary, no mention at either political convention, and no debate or discussion about the wisdom of such a step in this country.
