"Simple," by two business consultants, Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn, is a straightforward brief on simplicity, providing the reader with interesting examples of companies that have successfully embraced it as a business strategy while only occasionally slipping into overly simplistic advice.
How could a novice be daunted by these straightforward, often brief recipes?
But completing the $7.2 billion transaction, the technology giant's second-biggest after the acquisition of Skype, was a lengthy process that was anything but straightforward, people briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.
It seemed straightforward: a brief on legislation his boss forced through a reluctant Parliament that very afternoon that would give East Germans the right to travel to the West — and in doing so make the new regime the heroes of the people.
'fairly straightforward': uniformly brief narratives in which there was high certainty about physical or sexual abuse and decisive onwards referrals.
Like Clarke herself, whose reputation was built on her disdain for fads and faffing, it's an uncompromising, unflashy kind of a book, its recipes straightforward and rather brief: haikus of deliciousness almost anyone could pull off.
To ensure the survey did not impact on the school event and to enable self-completion by young people, the questionnaire was necessarily brief, straightforward and age-appropriate.
The brief was straightforward enough.
In the preface Beck recalls the challenge of writing "playable songs" that have "a quality that allows others to inhabit them and make them their own"; this results in songs that are brief and straightforward, from the bluesy "Rough On Rats" to the mournfully patriotic "America, Here's My Boy".
The stations, she suggested, are like much Christian art (and like much other religious art, one could add): no matter how brief and straightforward the original source, the believer, the preacher, the artist inevitably flesh it out, adding detail and new perspectives to help each devotee enter personally into the story and identify with the holy.
As a group of former members of Congress argued in an amicus brief, a "straightforward reading" of the Fair Housing Act both as it was passed in 1968 and as it was amended in 1988—makes clear that disparate-impact claims were intended.
