Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past few weeks, however, a new side of inflationary psychology has begun to show itself among businessmen and investors: plain, old-fashioned fear. Executives talk of inflation rates going to 20% or more in the next few months, creating an environment in which reasonable planning is impossible. The jitters have unhinged the investment markets. As recently as mid-February, stocks were widely considered a hedge against inflation and thought to be grossly undervalued. The Dow Jones industrial average hit a high of 904 on Feb. 13. But since then it has tumbled 92 points, to 812; nine points...
...lion's share of portfolios went to Mugabe's own Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which won a sweeping majority in last month's parliamentary elections. But in keeping with his postelection pledge of "reconciliation," Mugabe also included two prominent whites. David Smith, 58, a plain-spoken Scot who was Rhodesia's Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister under Ian Smith, was given the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Denis Norman, 49, leader of the country's 5,300 commercial white farmers, will take over the Ministry of Agriculture...
...long been plain that society has at least wanted older people out of productive life. Such was the meaning of the Social Security and retirement policies that began to roll forth in 1933. The message: 65 and out. While mandatory retirement has recently been relaxed, with the age advanced to 70, popular thinking still falsely tends to take age as a sure index of vitality. The stereotype of an old person as a doddering, drooling, irrelevant nuisance is much circulated. Beyond some uncertain year, people are often regarded as having little or no need for earthly pleasures, particularly sexual ones...
...path to the Knesses' door may have been beaten simply because of the Ketch-All Automatic Mouse Trap, Patent No. 2433913. But Emerson suggested an additional reason for this family's success: "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
...sense, Noguchi's tables are like Japanese gardens. As the raked sand of the garden provides an oceanic "world surface" from which the chosen rocks protrude like continents, so the polished surfaces of his table-top sculpture conjure an imagined plain whose sudden rearings and swellings can be seen as mountains or waves. The protrusions seem to heave themselves up, violently, out of the serene surface-an effect emphasized by a sudden change of texture from polished to roughly pecked stone. That, too, is a metaphor of larger geological events: in some real landscapes the mountain does not rise...