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- It’s an easy day trip from Acapulco to this famed silver-mining town, and worthwhile for anyone interested in experiencing more of this country’s historical past. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Many visitors who seek beach time in Mallorca — a pretty reasonable desire, after all — beeline for the northeast coast and its two great sandy bays, which have picturesque mountainous backdrops and are within easy striking distance of the historic towns Pollença and Alcúdia, as well as the protected wetlands s’Albufera. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Since fitness values are assigned at random for the to the (K + ), or to the N input configurations when K = N - , it is easy to show that the resulting fitness landscape is fully random. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- However, the implications of the design features discussed here are that, contrary to what many people think, the case study is not necessarily inexpensive, easy to conduct, or quick. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- 6. The standard should be easy to implement. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The sites are both easy to navigate and comprehensive. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- He suggested in his Nov. 10 interview with David Brinkley that going the rest of the way will be easy. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It's easy to criticize them, but really we ought to be looking inward. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- But the charge is easy to understand, whereas the rebuttals are subtle, complicated, and technical. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- That choice makes the problem space easy to solve rather than hard to solve. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- In a former life I used to interrogate politicians on television, and in six years there was never a subject on which they were unable to come up with an easy answer. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It’s easy to get to the Costa Daurada beaches from Barcelona. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- There's an easy e-mail sign-up form at the top of Today's Papers. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The easy victory of this former wartime partisan and European enthusiast was welcomed by La Repubblica of Rome in a front-page comment as "a fine moment for Italian politics and for the whole country." [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Here it is easy to see why this city is also known as Lalitpur (Beautiful City). [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- He also showed how easy it is in Washington to cultivate the appearance of thoughtfulness without doing a minute's worth of actual thinking. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The program is simple to load and, once in place, easy to use; it is also extremely fast. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The Senate had made the companies' decision easy by stripping the bill of the liability cap that would have mitigated the suits. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- "Even the world's sole superpower, with its unique responsibilities, is increasingly seeing violence and the use of overwhelming force as an easy option for achieving its ends as the most violent century in human history draws to a close." [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Essentially, Puerto Vallarta is a place where it’s easy to feel both relaxed and welcome. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- But it is easy to guess. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Results should be immediately available and easy to interpret. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The usage of these words is easy to spot: they all have an extra syllable or two that adds little but excess bulk (for usage , delete and substitute use ). Reporters at The New York Times , for example, often write of “subsidization programs,” when subsidy will do just as well. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- What is an easy answer? [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Addressing this issue, Dawkins sometimes resembles a flack for Lotto assuring us that winning the big one is easy. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The examples of great evil done by governments are easy enough to rattle off. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Luce's fame was a floaty, ineffable thing, not easy to get at with "yes" or "no" inquiries. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- She was easy to hold." [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- No easy journey, this. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Nevertheless, good books on archaeology assimilable by laymen are not easy to find, and if the reader can tolerate its shortcomings and is not overly concerned about the precise birthplace of Indo-European, Archaelogy & Language provides an interesting march through the millennia of prehistory in seven-league boots. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It is not easy. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The neighborhood isn’t really dangerous, but it’s all too easy for the unwary visitor to wander into a rip-off; if you plan to explore Kabuki-cho, do so with a knowledgeable local guide. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- " It's easy to bash a magazine whose owner does the same thing at dinner parties, when he isn't shopping the editor's job all over town. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- But it's also hard to see an easy way of avoiding that. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Hillary Rodham Clinton told a Senate panel in 1993 that savings in Medicare were easy because "we have too many examples now of how it can be done better at lower costs with the same or better quality, and that's what we're counting on." [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- This one-of-a-kind creation has helped spawn countless how-to manuals, but it's still easy to choose the indispensable one. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- A good map is essential, but it’s easy to be fooled by how near things look on paper. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It isn't as easy to summarize federal regulation as it is to summarize federal spending, but the basic point is similar: Most of what the government does is actually serving, not opposing, the public's will. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It seems hard to ascribe purpose, in the sense of acting on its own behalf, to a stone or a chair and easy with respect to an alga. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- First-time visitors will understandably want to spend most or all of their time in Rome, but the area surrounding the capital makes a pleasant excursion within fairly easy reach of Rome for those adventurers with wheels and extra time. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It's easy to overstate the new athletics as a force for social change, but don't count on surfers opposing the president's ludicrous, Reagan-revival anti-missile plan. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Payroll tax increases are easy to implement and directly improve the trust fund's finances. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- In a dictionary of this size, the complier is faced with the task of including or excluding a certain quotation--not a very easy decision when one is dealing with a stock of scores of thousands of Russian proverbs. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- In this, it would be a little too easy to blame the rapid-fire format for my misstating of your approach to the "instrumentalization" (my word, not yours) of the Holocaust. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The roguish image of the city’s present might make it easy to forget the city’s glorious past. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- On the other hand, long-term respiratory flow measurements are not easy to perform, particularly without affecting respiration itself or even destroying the weak coupling between heartbeat and respiration. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It is not at all easy for one who, like myself, not only does a good deal of work on his own account, but a good deal to help others, to remember where all the multitudinous notes on words occur. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Quality, the Urban Institute's Sandra Clark points out, is not an easy thing to measure. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- While I acknowledge that it is not easy to know how to sort out the many topics to be covered in a usage book, most reasonable writers have taken a stab at writing an entry under a heading that seems a likely place to look, then have provided a detailed index. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- If the poorer households, motivated by the similar urge for a peaceful nights sleep as their richer counterparts, insist on paying out of pocket for the relatively more expensive protective methods, then it is easy to see that just the act of attempting to prevent mosquitoes from biting may be helping to keep these households from improving their well-being as well as their health status. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- "There are no easy answers" is itself an easy answer--if you can get away with it. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- But the job of forging these relationships, never easy, is made all the harder by the values fostered by the public schooling system. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It will be on our site for two weeks, beginning Friday, Nov. 7. All the questions are easy: "What is the capital of North Dakota?" [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Obviously, this won't be easy, given the diversity of grievances and the geopolitical complexity surrounding them. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- If you don’t have your own equipment it is easy to buy at the resort. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Needless to say, people are anxious to buy shares when they know they can sell them seconds later for an easy profit. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- However, she believed that it is also important to use resources to reach as many people as possible and that systems currently exist that, once refined, can be fairly easy to implement. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Within easy striking distance of Trinidad are enough attractions to make a longer stay especially rewarding, including the fine beach of Playa Ancón, the lush Valley of the Sugar Mills, and waterfalls and treks in the Escambray mountains. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- He avoided easy quarry: possum [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The Web is a researcher's dream, enabling quick and fairly easy access to a wealth of information. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- I was happy to see you refer to a restaurant where "people smoke freely at their tables" as "unsullied," just as I was discouraged but not surprised to learn that cowboys in Marfa, Texas, are dreaming about easy IPO riches. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The State Department supported the armed Predator, although Secretary Powell was not convinced that Bin Ladin was as easy to target as had been suggested. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- "These cases take time and they aren't easy. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- If you know your blood type, it is easy. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- If the codes really are an innocent bookkeeping exercise, there's any easy way for the Bush campaign to dispel suspicion. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It's easy for today's textile workers to imagine that the Caribbean or the Far East is the next stop on this trip. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- In today's hypercompetitive world, it's easy to believe that Andy Grove is right, and that only the paranoid survive. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- An easy half-day outing is to Queluz, 14 km (8 miles) west of Lisbon on the way to Sintra (see below), home to the pretty pink palace commissioned by Pedro III. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It's easy enough to mock Moyers, America's secular televangelist. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- As someone who has written Feydeauesque farce, I can tell you that it's no easy feat. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Screening tests should be easy, affordable, widely available, and predictive. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- In the early days of the crisis, his position seemed absurd, and it was easy to make fun of him--which I did, right in Slate . But eventually it stopped being so easy to dismiss Mahathir's views. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Nevertheless, good books on archaeology assimilable by laymen are not easy to find, and if the reader can tolerate its shortcomings and is not overly concerned about the precise birthplace of Indo-European, Archaelogy & Language provides an interesting march through the millennia of prehistory in seven-league boots. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- It would be easy to dismiss these explanations as being nonsense, but you’ll understand India better if you can appreciate that what each guide is saying may in its own way be true. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The authors have provided a brief introduction which is easy to follow, a list of suggested readings, and the names and addresses of the several institutions and societies in Britain where readers may indulge a more intensive interest in dialect study. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- When an answer moves beyond difficult to completely impossible, it becomes easy once again. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- I also didn't attach my Linux machine to the company network--because I couldn't find easy instructions in my books, and further consultations with the Helpdesk would have been cheating. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The answer is not an easy one, so before trying to put forward some ideas, let us start by looking at how similar nouns and adjectives are classed. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The City center can seem at first like a maze of tiny streets and canals with no overall plan; however, in some ways it works very much like the plan of a spider’s web and once you understand the structure of the town plan, it is relatively easy to get around. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- While that is no easy task, we ought not forget that the IRS currently performs this very function in administering the estate and gift tax. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The more sober-minded supply-siders figured that even if the tax cuts didn't pay for themselves, the increased savings they generated would make the resulting deficits easy to finance. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The center of Lisbon is small, compact, and easy to get around in just a couple of days. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- At first sight they look easy, although further observation shows how precise and disciplined the movements are. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Of course, capturing the essence of complicated behaviour using simple models is an important step in theory development, and it is easy to challenge such models by pointing out elements or complications that are missing. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- In addition, the matrix method displays matching regions in the context of the sequence as a whole, making it easy to determine if the regions are repeated or inverted. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- While objecting to cross-examination of alleged rape victims because "it is easy to distort events so that a rape can appear to be consensual sex," she ignores the reverse implication--that it is easy to make consensual sex look like rape. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Eleanor's friends--even the lesbian ones--occasionally made the mistake of falling for Franklin's easy charms. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- The trouble with this method is that the absent/present threshold is essentially arbitrary, and there is no easy way to estimate the numbers of false positives and false negatives obtained. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- Because information about the investigation comes in dribs and drabs, it is all too easy to lose track of where things stand. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- I would like to think that a college dictionary is best which is easy to use because it answers basic questions about commonly used vocabulary: spelling, pronounciation, meaning, part of speech, synonym, and antonym. [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00
- (Hint: She loves those new gel caps, so easy to swallow!) [W1,F1,I1,I2]: 1.00