11.  It was heartening nonetheless to hear an actual candidate for public office, any office, talking about such serious problems in such a straightforward way.

12.  Our focus groups say to give them information in a straightforward way.

13.  Strong historical and cultural factors seem to contribute to the reluctance to prosecute rape or to speak about it in a straightforward way.

14.  The most straightforward way to get there quickly was to buy a major Internet player.

15.  The most straightforward way to build a wardrobe from ground zero, said Gross, is still as easy as one-two-three.

16.  The straightforward way to reduce the number of uninsured Americans is to provide them refundable tax credits to help pay for their health coverage.

17.  There is no straightforward way to estimate the value of an option, the executives say, and any attempt to do so would only muddle income statements.

18.  There is one fairly straightforward way of cramming more of anything into a fixed space.

19.  Those homeless people not plagued mentally or by addiction can be more easily assisted in a straightforward way.

20.  Hiroshi Takeda, a retired English teacher, wrote in an unusually straightforward way about imminent death, referring to the Old Testament of the Bible.