Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles and six more at Clearwater Prison camp in Washington State on a contempt of court conviction. "At Terminal Island I wouldn't shave, so they put me on death row. Prison shook a lot of my preconceptions. I met some characters in prison who were just plain...
...though he bridles when they are called cheap ("I don't know where you can buy cheap clothes," he says). He neither smokes nor drinks, drives himself to work in a 1973 Cadillac, and lists his phone number openly in the Dallas telephone directory. His taste in food is plain. Says one associate: "He is the kind of guy who will order chicken-fried steak and JellO, spill some on his tie, and then go out and buy all the silver in the world...
Boeing: builder of strategic bombers, ballistic missiles and jumbo jets. Boeing: the nation's 29th largest industrial company, but a firm with a plain-talking chairman of the board, Thornton ("T") Wilson, who drives unpretentiously around Seattle in a Honda instead of the company limousine. Boeing: the best planemaker in the world today, eclipsing all competition in the civilian aircraft business...
...years since its founding as the Pacific Aero Products Co., the Seattle planemaker has developed and nurtured a reputation for innovation, reliability and plain downright engineering excellence that is unmatched in the industry. Indeed, in an age when much of American business seems to have slipped into a search for quick profits and is marked by shoddy workmanship, the 104,000 engineers, designers, draftsmen, machinists, executives and salesmen of Boeing stand out as proof that, over the long haul, the only lasting standard of value in any market is quality itself. Said Air Force Secretary Hans Mark of the Pentagon...
Sheraton replied that she has checks to prove that she had indeed visited Dish of Salt three times (once with Times Managing Editor Seymour Topping). As for its claim to be "an authentic and elegant Cantonese restaurant," she added: "It was just plain dreadful and very expensive. If you found that kind of Chinese food in a Las Vegas nightclub, you'd say, 'Well, for a Las Vegas nightclub, this is what I would expect.' I have had better chow mein at the Copacabana in the '40s." Mimi was also "very seriously thinking" of talking...