Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While it is encouraging that Rafsanjani has publicly expressed a desire for the hostages' release, Western intelligence agencies have yet to detect any activity. Rafsanjani's own goals seem plain. Recently, he has been seeking to borrow as much as $27 billion from Western sources to rebuild his country's economy, which needs money and technology. He also aims to end Iran's diplomatic isolation from both the West and his Arab neighbors. With those goals in mind, he has apparently launched a hostage-release initiative and is seeking maximum publicity so that even if his effort fails, his good...
...these days -- perhaps more than they can properly handle. Prompted by fears of everything from AIDS and Lyme disease to high cholesterol, record numbers of people are lining up to give a blood sample and get back the good news, or bad. Too frequently, though, the news is just plain wrong. Several recent studies have revealed disturbing sloppiness or simple error in the way some blood tests are conducted and interpreted...
...players were a contrast in style and appearance, as well as age. Engel hit his balls with heavy topspin, while Nastase hit his shots flat. Engel had a pink handgrip with white head tape, while Nastase used a plain racquet. And it was Engel who did most of the running around, diving and lunging for Nastase's well-placed shots...
...first complication is that although the neighborhood standard ought not to be Israel's, it cannot be ignored when judging Israel. Why? It is plain that compared with the way its neighbors treat protest, prisoners and opposition in general, Israel is a beacon of human rights. The salient words are Hama, the town where Syria dealt with an Islamic uprising by killing perhaps 20,000 people in two weeks and then paving the dead over; and Black September (1970), during which enlightened Jordan dealt with its Palestinian intifadeh by killing at least 2,500 Palestinians in ten days, a toll...
These embellishments were just plain boring after the initial oohs and ahs. and they tended to take away from otherwise good numbers (for example, the white glove fiasco in the midst of "I'm Getting Married"). Also, I really can't think of anything more heinous than day-glo pink and yellow Can-Can outfits that turn bright orange under the strange glow of the black lights...