Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's just what Crandall and others plan to do, with or without the union's help, since labor is the industry's largest and most controllable expense. "This isn't union busting," says analyst Murphy. "It's just plain economics." If airlines don't cut costs, they don't survive...
...more sounds using refrigerator parts than using a plain, old drum set," said Lamont Washington, 21, Noble's brother and self-proclaimed roadie. "You mix up parts and get all types of beats that you don't get on a drum...
...Hancock towers, the Prudential, and Boston's other skyscrapers are all in plain view from the 15th floor, as is the majority of the Harvard campus...
...love more expertly, blow things up more noisily. And every now and then, die more beautifully. This holiday season, mortality is much on the minds of ambitious filmmakers. Grim Death will be gargling in dramas about AIDS (Philadelphia), the Nazi Holocaust (Schindler's List), Vietnam (Heaven and Earth) and plain old age (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway). It's apt that the Cardiac Pack is led by My Life, for its writer-director is Bruce Joel Rubin, screenwriter for the postmortem love story Ghost and the death-throe fantasy Jacob's Ladder -- the Jack Kevorkian of '90s Hollywood...
...this year, such new evidence of "probable innocence" would have got Schlup a new hearing. No longer. Three recent Supreme Court decisions have narrowed the window of appeal considerably. In 1991 the high court ruled that "attorney error" could not be used as a basis for an appeal. "In plain English," says O'Brien, "if your court-appointed lawyer screws up, too bad." Then, in 1992, the court issued a ruling that struck down the "probable innocence" standard and raised one in which lawyers had to prove that "no reasonable juror would have found the ((prisoner)) eligible for the death...