Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan found it Sunday. His opening proposal for strategic nuclear weapon talks with the Soviets, unveiled after only 18 months (three sevenths of his presidency) of "complex and difficult study" and just plain procrastination...
...advised the roughly 17,000 British subjects in the country to leave, and British officials in Buenos Aires are asking them to register at the Swiss embassy, which is handling London's interests. "We're just counting our flock," says one diplomat. So are the Argentines: plain-clothes policemen are reported to be conducting a census of Britons in Buenos Aires. Anglo-Argentines are feeling suddenly vulnerable in a country where weeks ago it was a mark of status to be British. Says one nervous Anglo-Argentine: "Everybody's scared. We've never been faced before...
...around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request) via a flack firm. The reason for saying no to these wolves is plain and very strong ... Why should we be in their goddamn memo traffic as exploitable or exploited 'resources...
Beyond that, said the admiral, "all the stories that are running around about major policy differences and personality disputes are just plain false." He contended that he was involved only in the routine kind of conflicts that always go on in Government and that they had nothing to do with his resignation. Unfortunately, Bobby Inman made that point in a telephone conversation. There was no way to determine whether he was hitching up his socks as he spoke...
...racing season has experienced two surges and plunges, one in the early spring, and one in the past couple of weeks. The top prospects for a really good Derby have mostly fallen by the wayside, knocked out of contention by racing injuries or plain hard luck, the curse of the thoroughbred industry...