Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out that a scientist can see the future by watching four-year-olds interact with a marshmallow. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torment. You can have this marshmallow right now, he says. But if you wait while I run an errand, you can have two marshmallows when I get back. And then he leaves...
Kaufman would do well to consider the plain fact that under Specter's tax, millionaires would save $100,000 a year in income tax, while comparable families with incomes of $60,000 would only save $600. Take that for simplicity. And if Mr. Kaufman could live with himself after voting for a president who would institute such a horrifyingly regressive system, then I question whether he has any concern what-soever for anyone less fortunate than himself. --Robin S. Goldstein...
...Court residents, although initially skeptical of the idea, now say they could not be happier with their decision to spend sophomore year in the plain but comparatively luxurious trailers...
Mary Anne Sharkey, an Institute fellow who is political editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, said the groups help students understand the "real world" in which she and the other group leaders work when they're not at Harvard...
...Beyond the Beltway: Flexing Media Muscle in a Presidential Campaign," led by Mary Anne Sharkey, political editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; "Economic, Social, and Political Forces Affecting Women's Lives. The Search for Solutions," led by Ellen Snee, who worked on the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and now teaches at Boston University; "Can a Nation Govern itself When Its Citizens Don't Trust Their Government?" led by Jolene Unsoeld, former Democratic member of the House of Representatives...