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Word: plaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plain fact is that any President has the right to appoint those individuals who will be responsive to his policy orientation. Perhaps the drive to replace various U.S. Attorneys in the country springs from a recognition that other things, like drugs, hard crime and consumer abuse, are as worthy of prosecutorial attention as political corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1978 | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

There is great sympathy in these songs, observations that can be caustic and still stay fond. Work like this makes it quite plain that for all the contradictions, Billy Joel is writing and singing some of the best pop music in the neighborhood. It might even make Virginia Callahan think twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

SATELLITES. In 1972 the U.S. and Soviet Union agreed that a "national means of verification" could be used by both sides, without interference, to police arms control pacts. In plain English: spy satellites were legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Motto Is: Think Big, Think Dirty | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...players who cannot compete with the younger players, but I can't see rescinding the whole lifetime exemption because of those two or three guys. These people helped make the tour. There's no way you can take away their exemption after the fact. They won it, plain and simple, and it's theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How Long Is a Lifetime? | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

That line drew strong applause. The theme was repeated as Carter added that "the American people are sick and tired of federal paper work and red tape" and reported progress on "turning the gobbledygook of federal regulations into plain English that people can understand." More applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Moving Down a Middle Road | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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