Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to contributing to the alarming breakdown of discourse, zealots and their ilk also possess the peculiar trait of often being, well, just plain wrong. Oh, they start out right, but somewhere along the way they veer off the narrow path and start clearing new trails of their own. Much as they can still see the original path, there's still some ounce of truth left in their claims, but it's been shrouded by the questionable data and dubious claims that are the hallmark of fanatics the nation over...
...carrying out his sworn duty in the face of a conspiracy to stop him; others argue all he proved in the end was his own willingness to humiliate the President and horrify the public with a report so gratuitously detailed and pornographic that it warranted warning stickers and a plain brown wrapper...
...spokesman for the Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr declared that the Office's Monica Lewinsky investigation "is not about sex... " Now...it is plain that "sex" is precisely what this four-and-a-half-year investigation has boiled down to. The Referral is so loaded with irrelevant and unnecessary graphic and salacious allegations that only one conclusion is possible: its principal purpose is to damage the President...
...tough, and by the look of things, it will not get any easier. Life is becoming more complicated, not less, and the demands put upon young people are increasing. It is plain that plenty of mediocre citizens emerge from Dexter Gate with no intention of serving better either their country or their kind. But despite the many obstacles in its place, I believe the College continues to have a responsibility to encourage "the whole development of an individual," and "the maturing of his understanding about the nature of things." A four-year college education is an opportunity for students...
...While the FEC audit contains "no smoking guns, no great revelations," says a a lawyer familiar with the case, "the Justice Department bases its interpretation of the law on what the FEC says, and once they say something's improper, bingo. It's specific and credible." The issues seem plain. "These ads were produced and designed by the campaign media consultants," says Common Cause president ANN MCBRIDE, pointing out that "it's on the public record that Clinton was very much involved in them." Reno watchers believe she will soon launch a formal 90-day inquiry into the Democrats...