Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eleven teams voted not to strike, acting on sentiments that ran from dislike of Garvey and his emphasis on non-money matters to plain lack of enthusiasm for militant action. "I hate to see the association go down the drain," explained Miami Center Jim Langer, whose team voted not to strike, "but they talk like a union. I love the game of football. It's been great to a lot of people, including...
...some extent, a junkyard is a junkyard no matter where it is located. Yet, like almost everything in town, the Cantabrigian junkyard has some special features that distinguish it from the plain-old-ordinary-run-of-the-mill variety. Unlike the neatly piled, sprawling yard of rusted cars and buses depicted in the movie Nashville, or the mountainous heaps of uncategorized wrecks in the swamps east of Baltimore, or the medium-sized backyard and field lots of suburban Boston, the Cambridge yard is severely limited in size. Since the average junkyard here is no larger than a half-acre...
...skin-magazine industry a decade ago. But profits are chancy, competition for readers is getting hotter, and the magazines are becoming ever more erotic. Last week Eastern Newsstand Corp., a distributor with 105 outlets in New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Atlanta, responded to complaints by displaying skin magazines in plain paper wrappers...
Next month First National Bank of Boston is putting the vernacular into its consumer credit transactions, from student loans to Master Charge agreements. Later this month, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will offer a plain-talk automobile policy throughout the U.S. similar to one introduced recently by Sentry Life Insurance...
...Texas is considering a plain-language requirement for health and accident policies. The new federal Pension Reform Act insists that company booklets be written "in a manner calculated to be understood by the average participant." And the new federal Warranty Law states that product warranties have to be "simple and readily understood." Linguist Flesch cautions that most of the rewrites do not yet rate a 60 on his scale-the level, he says, of the New York Daily News or SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But be it hereinafter understood that whereas the aforementioned and previously established methodology of contract composition has been...