Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a completely new model and it should be expected that there should be some difficult moments," Habiby says.CrimsonGrigory TovbisFANNY LEBRON works at the Maria & Ricardo Tortilla Factory in Jamaica Plain, one of the businesses helped by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City...
...portray them in television or on your headlines, you try to clarify just what the issues are." Then she proceeded to read the "significant" passages aloud in an effort, a Reno aide later explained, to say, "There is no crime here." Or at least not so far. "The plain fact of the matter," the aide says, "is that Congress changed this law and made it very easy to do a lot of fund raising at those buildings...
...tobacco executives have the upper hand. Odds are they could go on winning in court for years. But they are just plain wrong to ignore the wisdom of the market. For starters, the $10 billion-a-year figure is a red herring. David Adelman, tobacco analyst at Dean Witter Discover, believes the industry could get the figure down to $3 billion or less. But even at the higher figure, "it's not a lot of money" under certain scenarios, notes Roy Burry, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. No industry has greater pricing flexibility, and every nickel-a-pack increase generates...
...plan could become part of the problem as well as part of the solution. Many education professionals fear that the scholarships, aimed at the middle class, would benefit too many families that don't need the help and encourage colleges to raise tuition even higher. "It's just plain hucksterism," says Robert Zemsky, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Research on Higher Education. "Lots of people told the White House and the Education Department that this was nuts. I imagine every treasurer of every private university in America is just licking his chops...
...after the State Department became worried he was radioactive. (He now works out of a Washington lobbying firm on the upcoming Group of Seven summit.) "If my purpose was to sandbag the President," Ickes told TIME, "I would have put on rubber gloves, put the document inside a plain brown envelope, tied a rock to it and thrown it through the window of a news organization...