Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Random Winds, Plain (2 last week...
After hours of skirmishes with police, tensions ran high outside the high school in the "colored" (mixed race) Cape Town suburb of Elsie's River. Bands of youths pelted passing cars with rocks. Then someone threw an unlit gasoline bomb at a truck driven by two white plain-clothes policemen. Two other officers in camouflage riot gear suddenly sprang from the rear. Without warning they fired directly into the crowd, wounding six and killing two 15-year-old colored students...
...racking up sizable gains as department store profits decline. K Mart's business in the first quarter was up 14% while Sears' grew a meager 1.5%. Sales of so-called no-brand generic products, which can be substituted for their nationally advertised siblings but are packed in plain black-and-white packages, are also on the increase. The plain-marked product often sells for 30% to 50% less than the national brand, and some 14,000 stores now carry no-brand products. A study in Chicago showed that only 3.8% of potato chips but 35% of paper towels...
...Random Winds, Plain...
When school did reopen, all was peaceful, if not normal. Plain-clothesmen and community leaders walked the halls to quell fights, and the precautions prevented serious confrontations for the rest of the year...