"The issue was straightforward," said a senior official.
The rental car market is fairly straightforward, said Nima Samadi, senior industry analyst at IBISWorld.
The outcomes are "not very straightforward," said Sophie Witter, a senior research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, who has studied the elimination of fees in Africa.
Transforming the survey findings into raw physics is not a straightforward matter, said Katherine Flegal, a senior research scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led the obesity study.
The reasons are straightforward: the population is aging; seniors are politically active; and health-care treatments, particularly for the aging, continue to evolve in complex and costly ways.
In fact, it is a very straightforward and simple process," says Robin Holland, senior vice president of customer service at Equifax.
Recently, I've been asking senior government figures a fairly straightforward question: what does the prime minister believe in?
Dr. Michael Holick, a professor of medicine at Boston University and the senior author of the study, offered straightforward advice for pregnant women.
"I have never had such intense, detailed, straightforward, candid conversations, with the Iranian delegation before," a senior White House official gushed afterward.
"I've been doing this now for about two years, and I have never had such intense, detailed, straightforward, candid conversations with the Iranian delegation before," said a senior Obama administration official.
