Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humankind for peace and understanding. Come together to do this for him now so when young men and women shout out in hurt or anger from your streets or campus, "I am someone," King's spirit of freedom will ring back to them, not only from our distant plain, but from you city--a spirit flowing not from the "cup of bitterness and hatred," but founded upon the "stone of hope" King mentioned in his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. His is a spirit needed not just one day each year, but for all seasons. Roger Gadbois Columbia...
...holds that every hike in the wage triggers employee firings, with the least skilled axed first. That view has been challenged by several recent studies co-authored by Alan Krueger, the Labor Department's chief economist. A modest increase, says Krueger, would have ``negligible negative employment effects''--or, in plain English, next to no job losses. Negligible, though, is a term of art. Because wage- related costs like unemployment compensation and payroll taxes rise along with the basic wage, most experts say the contemplated hike to $5 an hour could cost between 40,000 and 100,000 jobs. ``The consensus...
...which she's won--she thought she had seen it all. Of course she had expected a little razzle-dazzle from Johnnie Cochran Jr. during his opening arguments, but, she says, the surprise unveiling of 14 new witnesses by O.J. Simpson's defense lawyers stunned even her. ``This was plain sleazy,'' Clark said in an interview with Time. ``I was floored. They disregarded the judge's orders...
Bagby says she intended to create a report in which the public could view the national debt in plain terms, much as stockholders read reports from the corporations in which they invest...
Consider this my revenge for all the times that sources--and you know who you are--have yelled at me, told me how ignorant I am or been plain mean...