Word: plaines
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time in our lives for experimentation. Dye your hair purple, pierce a nipple, buy a pair of ridiculous sneakers—it’s all good! So boys, spice up your khaki pants and Brooks Brothers button-down with some hot red and blue Adidas. Girls, the plain skinny jeans look so much better with a pair of rockin’ hi-top Nikes...
...Then there are the studies that suggest that pregnant women just plain gross some people out. In one, people who viewed videotapes of non-pregnant women and visibly pregnant women doing the same task judged the pregnant women more negatively (and no, the activity was not smoking...
...scrapping of parole for hard-core criminals. "I'm not having, on my watch, people on the streets who've committed heinous crimes," Key told a national television audience. He's also made familiar right-of-center noises on education, foreshadowing national standards for literacy and numeracy, and plain-speaking school reports. "I think it's time for a change," says Watson, 18 years a cop, "and I know some of my colleagues are hanging...
...reveal any information on player injuries, but since six different Browns have caught the bug since 2005 - Winslow has had it twice - the team's medical management looked suspect to some observers. "There's obviously a problem [with staph] and we have to fix it," Winslow told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Just look at the history around here. It's unfortunate, because it happens time and time again." The Browns, who denied that they had kept the news of his infection from his teammates, suspended Winslow one game for his rant, which included his claim that he felt like...
...even with his new populist skills, Obama hasn't been as plain as he could be. If an Apollo project to create a new alternative-energy economy is his highest priority, as he told me, why hasn't he given a major speech about it during the fall campaign? Why hasn't he begun to mobilize the nation for this next big mission? In part, I suppose, because campaigns are about firefighting - and this campaign in particular has been about "the fierce urgency of now," to use one of Obama's favorite phrases by Martin Luther King Jr., because...