Word: plaine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority will rule," he said, promising a vote that "will be plain,...pretty damn simple...
...nothing. He admits, however, that the sword in question was engraved with the letter A. And he retails the scholarly notion that long before it belonged to the proprietor of Camelot it was the legendary Sword of Mars, said to make its wielder invincible, discovered on the Hungarian plain and owned by none other than Attila...
Kind words. Gentle words. Nothing flashy or particularly memorable. Just good, plain talk from the heart. And a departure: if George Bush signaled anything by proclaiming a "new breeze," it was a new altruism, a move away from the Reagan era's tacit approval of selfishness, an end to the glorification of greed. "Use power to help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means...
Whether genuine or idle, the chatter made plain that Gorbachev's power is neither monolithic nor unfettered. At the heart of his woes is the apparent failure of his perestroika campaign to jump-start the Soviet economy. A report put out by the Council of Ministers last week showed that, while the Soviet economy grew by 4.4% last year, farms and factories failed to produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose...
...former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board offers some plain talk about the economy, naturally, as well as public service and his former bosses...