Excess weight gain may, at its simplest reckoning, be the result of eating more food than one burns off, and therefore the means to controlling body weight will always be a variation on decreasing caloric intake while increasing physical activity.
China feels entitled to call the shots because of a brutally simple environmental reckoning: It currently controls most of the globe's rare earths supply not just because of geologic good fortune, although there is some of that, but because the country has been willing to do dirty, toxic and often radioactive work that the rest of the world has long shunned.
Reds and Greens knew that getting out of the "plutonium economy" would not be simple, but few reckoned it would be quite as complicated as this.
The meat substitution turns out to be simple: the owners reckoned beef would be more popular, and the minuscule kitchen doesn't allow for two massive broth pots.
For this simple reason, Wray reckons the Heineken Cup will shortly leap from its supposed death bed, albeit as a 20-team tournament under different stewardship on a rival network.
In his reckoning, the simple fact of its rejigging should not be considered electoral reform.
But relief workers reckon that simple plastic tarpaulins, suspended on poles, are a more durable option.
Delivering it to the target is, by most reckoning, the simplest part.
Far more important, he reckons, is simple political bias.Nevertheless, it is hard to see how Republicans would gain from a campaign where the economy looms large.
Predictably enough, Zhou Xiaochuan of the People's Bank of China reckons that simple adjustments in nominal exchange rates cannot influence savings behaviour.
