Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People aren't eating out less," says Ronald Paul, president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based market-research firm. "They are just seeking better value." If, as the French gourmand Brillat-Savarin observed, you are what you eat, these days Americans are down-home, comfortable, just plain folks -- but not to be taken for granted...
Still, this good fortune is not irreversible. When it becomes plain just how badly Iraq has been mauled, Arab rage may again threaten the calm. The coalition, no longer unified by the single aim of liberating Kuwait, will lose cohesion as its members compete to realize their own visions of the future, each guided by a unique set of interests that at some points must clash. Already differences are emerging: the Soviets, for instance, want a better deal for their old client Iraq than the West does, and the Arabs and Europeans want to be tougher on Israel than...
Imagine my surprise when I found out otherwise. That was just plain rape...
...University has remained silent, and rightly so. Much as Townsend would like them to, the Confederate flags--and her swastika--do not fall beyond the limits of constitutionally protected free speech. University rules, of course, technically ban students to hang anything from their windows except plain white curtains. But since the University has taken no action against students who display everything from the U.N. banner to the American flag to HRO advertisements, it's hard to imagine that the administration could force the removal of the flags and the swastika...
Appearing before the cameras at 10 o'clock, the President looked somber, and his sentences were plain, devoid of any rhetorical flourish. Harking back to a Friday-morning appearance in the bright sunshine of the Rose Garden, he remarked that he had given Saddam Hussein "one last chance . . . to do what he should have done more than six months ago: withdraw from Kuwait without condition or further delay." Saddam, he said, had responded only with "a redoubling" of efforts "to destroy completely Kuwait and its people" -- a reference to the "scorched earth" torching of oil wells and systematic executions...