Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger-at least not by Kissinger until he moved from the Security Adviser job to become Secretary of State. Haig also bridled at OMB Director Stockman's public disclosure that he is seeking a very large cut in the foreign aid program. That, Haig made plain, is the Secretary of State's turf...
Delta's plain pipe-rack operation on the ground is not visible in the air, where it has won faithful business travelers for its efficient, on-time service. Its advertising ("Delta is ready, when you are") is equally straightforward. "We don't go in for this Wings of Man stuff," says a spokesman...
...those days when nothing goes right. Injuries, illness, weight problems and just plain bad luck plagued the Crimson wrestlers yesterday at Princeton as they succumbed to the Tigers, 36-3, in their third straight Ivy League loss...
...Salvador Dissent Paner" infiltrated Washington D.C. the day after Ronald Reagan's landslide victory. With an awkwardly revised introduction acknowledging Reagan's victory tacked on, the 30-page document appeared nevertheless, slipped by invisible hands under the door of every State Department office. The same day, it arrived in plain white envelopes, no return address, at the offices of capital lobbies and church and human rights groups involved in the national effort to change U.S. policy toward the tiny Latin American country...
...topped $50 million. The annual maintenance of a proposed $3.5 million levee system would have doubled property taxes. Staying put was ruled out because state and federal laws restricted growth funds to towns in flood-prone areas. Since the entire business district of Soldiers Grove lay in the flood plain, the legislation was viewed by the inhabitants as a financial death warrant...