Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Providence (the island with the capital and most populous city, Nassau) teems with Americans and is ripe with McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts and other American fast-food chains. So, although the Bahamas are a foreign country, it would be plain wrong to assume that Spring Breakers descend on the islands for anything but the hedonism that they hope will follow...
...carnage in Tel Aviv was only the latest, some would say inevitable, result of the troubles that have piled up during Netanyahu's 10 months in power. One difficulty was plain old inexperience. Netanyahu came into office almost wholly without practice in the real business of government. His energies in public life were spent crafting an image and smoothly making arguments for or against policies, but not formulating them. He never mastered strategy, only shifting tactics. In command of a telegenic appearance and a glib tongue, he figured his rhetoric could explain away his mistakes...
...just Robinson but an entire race was coming to the plate--and he knew it. He stood up to the pressure with extraordinary grace and performed at a Hall of Fame level. His is surely one of the most remarkable and inspiring accomplishments in sports history, or just plain history...
...marketable. Perhaps it is a victim of its own, centuries-long hype: so much has been claimed for it, much of it contradictory, that our literal-minded age overloads and calls the whole thing a wash. Or perhaps America has finally got heaven just right. Plain. Unvarnished. Stripped of harps and halos. The current generic heaven still delivers when people need it most, say some unsentimental observers--at the death of a loved one. Why bother with it any other time...
...they never should have been given that chance. Even if the President and his administration were ignorant of the FBI's suspicions about the Chinese government, the aggressive fundraising tactics of some members of Clinton's re-election team were just plain irresponsible. Those solicitors who allegedly sought and accepted illegal donations should have known that laws prohibiting campaign contributions from foreign donors are in place to prevent foreign peoples and governments from influencing United States policy...