Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, overfishing is not the only human activity that is jeopardizing life in the oceans. Coastal pollution and habitat destruction--filling in wetlands, building dams--are contributing to the crisis. But it is overfishing, the NRDC report makes plain, that constitutes the most urgent threat and demands the most immediate action...
...world has come to look like the United States, with the invasion of McDonald's, Coke and the Gap, the South is starting to look more and more like the rest of the United States as well. If all of the U.S. becomes the same, it will be just plain boring. Therefore, I think that it is the duty of all Southerners and people in every region of the country to do what they can to keep regional identities alive. I am doing my part by boycotting the CVS franchise that just opened near my house...
Barnacle Bill. Yogi. Casper. Scooby Doo. Flat Top, Boo-Boo. The Couch. Souffle. After billions of years of anonymity, a motley collection of rocks on the Martian flood plain called Ares Vallis at last had names of their own. And back on Earth last week, the Pathfinder scientists who had playfully nicknamed the rocks were enjoying, as one of them phrased it, "a rock festival," reveling in the torrent of data being yielded by the rock stars and their surroundings...
...Senator Helms's opposition has nothing whatsoever to do with drug policy," Weld said. "It has everything to do with the future of the Republican Party. In plain language, I am not Senator Helms's kind of Republican. I do not pass his litmus test on social policy. Nor do I want to," the Governor said...
...were real royal relics up for grabs there last week. More than 1,000 potential buyers, a phalanx of reporters and dozens of young Christie's employees in little black dresses watched Christie's chairman LORD HINDLIP auction off 79 of DIANA's castoffs--some lovely, some dated, some plain hideous. The "Up Yours" dress, right, so called because Diana wore it to stunning effect the night Charles admitted his infidelity on TV, was an early favorite at $74,000. But it was eclipsed by the $222,500 blue velvet "JOHN TRAVOLTA dress," far right, which she wore...