Word: plaines
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...policy shift was announced by the Treasury Department, but it was clear that it had been okayed by top officials at both the Justice Department and the White House. Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein explained that after re-examining the issue, the Administration could find nothing in the "plain language" of the IRS code or the history of the legislation that justified the denial of the tax exemptions. Veteran Civil Rights Attorney Joseph Rauh thought otherwise. "This was a sop to the right-wingers," he said. "The law is very clear that you can't give a direct...
...Friday night, we just plain stunk," said Crimson captain Mike Watson...
...Palestinian Arab and citizen of Jordan, was extradited from the U.S. to Israel two weeks ago to stand trial on charges that he set off a bomb in the Israeli resort city of Tiberias in May 1979 that killed two youths and injured 36 others. Abu Eain (rhymes with plain) and his supporters have fought a 2½-year battle in U.S. courts against the extradition order, and the controversy refuses to fade away...
...Gdansk food riots, as a day of national protest. But the government's massive military operation had been in preparation for a long time. Deployment of troops had begun at least a fortnight earlier. When authorities published a list of 57 dissidents who had been "detained," it was plain that the list had been drawn up in advance: three people on it were out of the country. (Not on the list but determined to protest the "flagrant and brutal" crackdown and to express his "solidarity" with Walesa: Poland's Ambassador to the U.S., Romuald Spasowski, who sought and was swiftly...
...Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...