Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thwack on the expense-account set. Abroad, Wilson has managed to get on agreeably with the leaders of France and West Germany-no easy feat, particularly in Paris. Despite anguished cries from the pacifist left of his own party, Wilson has supported the U.S. in Viet Nam and made plain his intention to keep Britain's far-flung military establishment intact and in service to the West from Aden to Malaysia...
Their job has already been made easier for them in another way. Since last November, law professors have been preparing summaries of significant cases before the Supreme Court, with the hope of eventually producing 100 per court term. Boiled down to four or five pages of plain English from briefs running sometimes to 400 pages of legalese, the summaries have come as a welcome relief to hard-pressed court reporters...
...delegates assembled in the austere exhibition hall, it was clear that many high-ranking C.D.U. leaders were sharply at odds with one another. Former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had made no secret of his contempt for Erhard and his policies. To the horror of C.D.U. strategists, he made plain his intention of saying so at the convention. "Praise or criticism," growled Adenauer, "it must come out in the open." In the end, however, Keynote Speaker Adenauer relented and gracefully pulled the worst of his punches...
...plain fact is that the 13 struggling Eastern railroads can no longer survive without consolidation. Recognizing this, the ICC has already allowed the merger of the Chesapeake & Ohio with the Baltimore & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western with the Wabash and Nickel Plate. Even the bankrupt New Haven has found a partner. Two days after last week's Penn-Central finding, in accordance with the examiners' recommendation, the two roads agreed to take over the New Haven's red-ink freight business for $140 million in stock, bonds and cash. They want no part of its commuter business, which...
...Business Oriented Language), Fortran (Formula Translation), MAD (Michigan Algorithmic Decoder) and JOVIAL (Jules's Own Version of the International Algebraic Language). All of them are bewildering mixtures that only the initiated can decipher. Now some computers have reached the point where they can nearly understand-and reply in-plain English. The new Honeywell 20 understands a language similar enough to English so that an engineer can give it written instructions without consulting a programmer. The day is clearly coming when most computers will be able to talk back...