Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post office downtown (including 79% of the senior citizens, who tend to walk there), postal spokesman Robin Wright dismisses the stay-putters as "emotional" and says the poll "is a private kind of deal" to "help us with our strategy." An internal Postal Service document makes this "strategy" as plain as bureaucratic doublespeak can be: "Provide a clearer identification of the 'real' underlying concerns by the antimove advocates, along with compensatory responses designed to diffuse them...
...Bill Clinton, in his own way, had prepared for her. When he first took office, he made his foreign policy principles plain: he didn't have any. And that itself was almost a matter of principle. Three months into his presidency, he announced that "foreign policy is not what I came here to do." Christopher and his team were essentially custodians; all the hotshots were running domestic policy, and soon the State Department's budget was dropping and pieces of its portfolio were shifting over to Commerce and Treasury. Foreign policy became an extension of trade policy by other means...
There are those who condemn the shameless disregard for our national holidays. Memorial Day, after all, should be a time to honor and reflect. Instead, it has become synonymous with hot dogs, hamburgers and lighter fluid. But condemnation only polarizes and inflames while leaving the underlying problem unaddressed. The plain truth remains that for many Americans, several of our national holidays have become irrelevant. In the spirit of maintaining a vital and meaningful civic culture, maybe it's time we made some changes. Here are some suggestions...
...letter sent to University Provost Albert Carnesale last week, another professor expressed concern about limits on freedom of choice. "It seems to me plain ridiculous for the University's own health facilities not to be available to the University's own faculty and staff on terms such as other plans seem to be able to offer," wrote Anthony G. Oettinger, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Information Resources Policy in the letter...
...that never came and hanging on the line for Escort Service operators who never picked up. Following the appearance of that column, General Manager of Tranport Services Peter Witt kindly called to discuss my concerns. Since then, thanks to Witt's Herculean efforts, only a handful of shuttles have plain not showed...