Word: plain
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...sense of largeness which permeates the film is enhanced by the plain good versus evil struggle. Attenborough achieves in the film a significant, if somewhat unsubtle, portrayal of the sins of colonialism--sins which may have slipped from contemporary consciousness with the political polarization and generally awful governance of the Third World over the last 20 years. (This too is the bitter legacy left by colonial powers.) There is an unwillingness to see beyond the grossness and malice of a mine owner who sends mounted troops out to beat protestors or the cupidity of a flaccid land owner...
Peter G. Peterson, chairman of New York's Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb and a former Secretary of Commerce, is not exactly one of those plain people, despite his Nebraska heritage. But when he formed a coalition urging both the President and Congress to face this economic crisis with a realistic program to reduce the huge deficits, he tapped the frustrations of millions of small and big businessmen, bankers, teachers, accountants, lawyers and editors. Peterson, who never really intended it that way, has taken a sizable chunk of presidential authority through an impulse that was inspired last spring...
...neophyte adrift in a computer store, it may seem a beacon of simplicity, sanity and humor. Amid all the intimidating machinery and densely technical literature, its plain white cover asks disarmingly, "What are those television-typewriters anyway?" Inside, it offers quaint woodcuts, turn-of-the-century ads and plenty of soothing printed words. No wonder that The Personal Computer Book, at $9.95, has become the fastest-selling computer guide on the market and has made its author, an erstwhile poet and promoter of Transcendental Meditation, something of an overnight celebrity. Peter McWilliams, 33, who wrote, printed and published the book...
Crime and other "worldly" problems rarely touch the plain-living Amish and Mennonite residents of New Holland, Pa. Indeed, no one could recall any precedent for the violence against Naomi Huyard, a frail, friendly woman of 50. On the evening of Nov. 27, the Amish woman left her farmhouse and walked across the road to the home of John and Lillian Herr to store several boxes of cauliflower in a freezer in their garage. When she did not return, her sister became alarmed and notified neighbors, who called the police. After a three-hour search of the neighborhood, a state...
...other hand, many experts believe that such fears are premature. Says Michael Evans, chief economist of McMahan, Brafman, Morgan and Co., a New York securities firm: "With the economy so weak, I think the Fed is just plain too scared to do anything except keep pushing out money for the foreseeable future. We've seen 15% money growth in the last quarter with no recovery in sight, so they'll probably keep pushing. To put it bluntly, the Fed will continue to buy up the Government's debt...