Word: plain
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...required: putting an end to the anomaly by which Canada cannot amend its constitution-the British North America Act of 1867-without the approval of Britain's Parliament. However, by custom even that requires unanimity on the part of the provincial governments, and since the Ottawa conference made plain that this was impossible, the "patriation" of the constitution, as Canadians put it, was out of reach by traditional means...
Irate shoppers are balking more strongly than before at the high prices and seeking out money-saving shortcuts. Sales of so-called generic products, which come in plain packages and often cost 25% or so less than national brand products, continue to boom. Within the past six months, the Star Market Co., based in Cambridge. Mass., claims to have introduced unbranded products to the U.S., has had a 10% increase in sales on 85 of them. Its parent, Chicago's Jewel Companies Inc., now has 170 such items in its stores, and the company claims that almost all customers...
...eight-member group evolved a year ago from the Jamaica Plain Banking and Mortgage Committee, a community group that tried to pressure banks into investing MURAG's members include former Jamaica Plain community activists, three VISTA volunteers and a college intern...
...gesturing at the town of Geisa (pop. 4,000) across the fence, less than two miles away. "Many were born over there, went to school there, or had jobs there. Now we have to look west, not east, for all that." Though Rasdorf and Geisa are in plain sight of each other, telephone calls between them take up to eight hours to complete, and getting from one to the other-if a visiting permit for Geisa is granted-is now a 154-mile drive instead of a 20-min. walk...
...Random Winds, Plain...