But, he said, "we need to be cautious since it may not be straightforward moving these mouse studies into humans".
This would, as Charlie Savage, of the Times pointed out, be a straightforward move if these were prosecutors in a real court (and, lest anyone forget, we have plenty of real courts available in this country).
But one department official said that the record penalties assessed against BP were not an effort to send a signal to industry, but a straightforward move that punished a company with a long record of moving slowly to address safety problems.
With proponents of this change projecting that it would save $60 billion over the next 10 years, it looks like a straightforward move.
It's a remarkably straightforward move, far from the conspiracy theories the last few days have spawned, but when you're dealing with bruisers like Microsoft and CES, everything is swathed in diplomacy as would be ostensibly amicable divorce proceedings.
Amazon's Prime Day is a straightforward move by the company to offer a members-only sale event, not unlike those created by brick-and-mortar stores, to both push more memberships — and, of course, sales, aiming for economies of scale and volume to make up for the lost margins.
Two of them were straightforward, moving item 23 from healthcare and people to professional job and item 1 from family and friends to careers advising.
Instead Mr. Maltzan strove to enliven the $10 million Rainbow Apartments with a series of bold, straightforward design moves.
This makes it straightforward to move functionality between different services, even those services that lie on different servers or are moving from server-side code (e.g., Python, Java) to client-side code (e.g., JavaScript).
