Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams had also been careful to conduct community meetings (more than 150 in all) to explain his austerity measures in plain language. A draft-Williams movement began--not in a white establishmentarian's home this time, but in struggling Ward 7. In May, after months of saying he wouldn't run, he decided to go for it. The campaign, so far, has been a dream. Contributions flow in like lobbyists into Congress. Williams' main primary opponents are three longtime council members forced to answer at every stop for the various crises the city suffered. Last week opponents began raising 11th...
...stretchy T, rubber dresses and a whole slew of offbeat new materials. For this fall, tired of being the fabric frontiersman, he worked instead with layering--Can he bring capes back?--and unusual forms. His colors--white, black, camel and a zing of lemon--were like him: plain but hip. When: Fall collection in stores now. Spring collection to be shown in New York City on Sept...
...hook it up to the Internet and expect them not to run into trouble. That's like dropping your kids off at the playground at 7 a.m. and not coming back till 7 p.m. Anything can happen to them." As Operation Cheshire Cat shows, there are monsters hiding in plain sight, right in the middle of Main Street...
...rebuttal, a 42-page addendum to Friday's 73-page installment. It contained further objections to Starr's report that already sound familiar: The President's acts were wrong but "do not even approach the Constitutional test of impeachment -- treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors... it is plain that sex is precisely what this four-and-a-half-year investigation has boiled down...
...While the FEC audit contains "no smoking guns, no great revelations," says a a lawyer familiar with the case, "the Justice Department bases its interpretation of the law on what the FEC says, and once they say something's improper, bingo. It's specific and credible." The issues seem plain. "These ads were produced and designed by the campaign media consultants," says Common Cause president Ann McBride, pointing out that "it's on the public record that Clinton was very much involved in them...