Word: plain
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...between Brazil and Bolivia is a rare place where people profit from nature without destroying it. Called the Pantanal, it is a giant freshwater wetland that covers 140,000 sq km (54,000 sq. mi.). Unlike Brazil's other three great ecosystems -- the Atlantic forests, the Amazon and the plain called the Cerrado -- the Pantanal has not yet suffered grievous damage at the hand of man. Even more amazing, it retains some of the densest concentrations of wildlife in the Americas, despite the fact that settlers have worked cattle ranches in the area for more than 200 years...
...music, watching people who can't evendance? There's bad lighting, badatmosphere, bad crowd.Blecchhh. It's justpathetic. walk in and think 'God, I could have had a V8. God. I could have done anything, I could have stayed at home and watched Sally Jessy Raphael.' It's just plain boring. And I want you to put this in your article...
...openness should be seen not so much as a different direction for Harvard, but as a return from Harvard, Inc. to just plain Harvard...
...plain terms, the tutor system is a failure. At a College which assumes that the houses are adequate to meet the social and outside-the-classroom intellectual needs of its students (and thus consistently puts off building a student center), tutors have an enormous responsibility conferred upon them...
...acting is mainly mediocre. A seeming example of the first and third shortcomings is the Denver Center Theater. The four-stage complex is as impressive an array of arts buildings as can be found short of New York City or Los Angeles, but the resident company is sometimes plain embarrassing...