One of the most intriguing (and refreshingly straightforward) comes from Jeffery Kadet, a former tax partner with Arthur Andersen, who now teaches at the University of Washington School of Law.
And now Washington's message to Argentina's new president, Eduardo Duhalde, is straightforward: Come up with a workable plan, and then we will talk.
The most widely seen use of the MPC — and the most straightforward — came at last September's MTV Video Music Awards, when Kanye West closed the show with a performance of "Runaway" that began with him playing an MPC 2000XL, triggering a series of piano notes, recorded drum sequences and Rick James vocal samples.
Of all the comments on the overnight apocalypse, undoubtedly the most straightforward came from a defeated Scottish Labour MP.
Innosense, a five-woman group, put the moves of a cheerleading squad behind catchy, straightforward come-ons.
But though he went in at half-time with 19 to his name they had not been straightforward in coming.
But what should have been a more straightforward process, coming at the end of a 35-year debate, has turned into a tortuous marathon, with requests for every conceivable type of provision for the minority of people in the church who still do not accept that women can – or should – exercise episcopal ministry.
But that seemingly straightforward commitment comes with "knockout" clauses.
The most straightforward assessment came from Nguyen Thi Binh, known to everyone in Vietnam as Madame Binh.
It's clean, straightforward and comes with a nifty Today View widget.
It is straightforward to come up with the idea to combine the feature selection and sampling rate adjustment to achieve a better result for privacy-preserving data sharing.
