Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florio. "Legislatures react," he says crisply. "Executives initiate." With 67% of New Jerseyites grudgingly agreeing that new taxes were inevitable, Florio worked them relentlessly for support of his proposals. In diners, gyms, boardrooms and convention halls, he explained his position again and again. "A lot of politicians are just plain lazy," he says in the midst of another chaotic day. "They just don't want to make the case, and so they end up pandering to special interests. To underestimate the people is extremely dumb...
...piece was full of elusive truths," recalls Fulghum. "Elusive because they had been in plain sight all the time. Everybody had tripped over them in kindergarten -- without realizing that they were words to live...
...government press center in the capital city of Algiers. Speaking in a monotone, Mohammed Salah Mohammedi delivered the startling news: the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front was ahead in Algeria's first multiparty election since the country's independence from France in 1962. Eventually the scope of the victory became plain: the Islamic party took a majority of the municipal and provincial councils, while the ruling National Liberation Front (F.L.N.) captured only one-third of them...
...allow it. That angers many artificial-intelligence researchers. M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, one of the field's pioneers, is downright hostile. Says he: "Penrose is O.K. when he talks about mathematics, but most of his evidence argues against his conclusions. As far as I can tell, he is just plain wrong." Stanford psychologist and AI researcher David Rumelhart is somewhat milder: "He defines intelligence too narrowly by saying it depends on consciousness...
...heir Donald, the same unobtrusive style still prevails. And while Hearsts, Knights, Ridders, Chandlers and other media dynasts have mostly dropped out of day-to-day management of their inheritances, about two dozen Newhouses work at properties ranging from the Newark Star-Ledger (circ. 470,000) and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (circ. 437,000) to Video Jukebox, a pay-per-view cable- TV channel featuring music videos...