Word: plain
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...interrogation or its "functional equivalent." Two of the dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, felt the remarks should indeed have been read as an appeal to the suspect's conscience. But Justice John Paul Stevens went further, rejecting the majority's definition of interrogation as a "plain departure" from Miranda's principles...
...Random Winds, Plain...
Besides making dozens of rebirthing house-calls--"you can't pull clients into Jamaica Plain"--Hollingsworth spends his time establishing the Institute for Wholistic Living, planned as a center for natural healing that will bring together under one roof experts in "diet, yoga, meditation, massage, herbalism, aura reading, Gestalt and Polarity Therapy, the Bach flower remedies and primal scream, as well as a psychic or two." After that, Hollingsworth hopes to organize a National Guide of Alternative Health Practitioners to "try to put a dent in the American Medical Association's monopoly on healing...
...bright pink. Water was run over craggy stone or along the wall tops, seeping down to aid the growth of moss. On the street side, the walls were blank, shutting out the city and its noise. Buyers were few at first, but eventually the once despised El Pedregal lava plain became Mexico City's most elegant residential area...
...verdict. They found former Budget Director Bert Lance not guilty on nine counts of bank fraud, but deadlocked on three other counts of banking violations. As the jurors filed out of the courtroom, several of them waved at Lance and his wife LaBelle. Beamed Lance afterward: "We just plain licked 'em." The next day he reported that his close friend Jimmy Carter had congratulated him in almost the same words he used in 1977, only weeks before Lance resigned from the Administration. Carter's message last week: "Bert, I'm still proud...