Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheet goes on to threaten: "Disruptions will be treated seriously and may result in expulsion from the meeting, disciplinary action or arrest by civil authorities." This statement constitutes nothing less than plain totalitarian scare tactics...
...money raiser for the former Governor of Tennessee. Beaulieu, the third largest carpet manufacturer in the U.S., was a target of a Justice Department price-fixing probe, but was not charged. Investigators are now looking into whether or not the company reimbursed employees for contributions made to the plain-talking, plaid-shirted candidate's 1996 presidential campaign. It was precisely a scheme of that sort that cost one of Bob Dole's moneymen a $1 million fine...
...Jamaica Plain resident and a Somerville resident were arrested at 36 JFK St. after both parties were observed using drugs in the men's restroom...
...prescient. Here's the pitch: Websites are built using markup languages--sets of rules for displaying information on a Web page. Today's standard language, HTML (hypertext markup language), was chosen at the dawn of the Web for its simplicity and the ease with which it combined pictures with plain text. This very simplicity, though, makes the Web in its current form a very tough place to do business...
When the Baby Boomers turned 40, we were treated to dissertations on how it felt to turn 40. Now they are 50, and it's as if they were the first generation ever to reach that milestone. Will the most self-centered, self-absorbed, self-important and just plain selfish generation in history ever stop whining and just grow up? THOMAS J. BROWNE Bridgewater...