Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final report that Cole put before the committee on Friday made it clear that he believed Gingrich had broken the law. He had ignored plain understandings, Cole told the committee on Friday, that "you're supposed to keep politics and tax-deductible situations separate." And if Gingrich had not sought the legal advice that would have steered him away from that course, it was because he was reckless or knew that no lawyer would let him do what he had in mind...
...plain English, fund lovers, that means the vast majority of you, through fees levied against your funds, have been paying professionals for the privilege of earning subpar returns. That's only supposed to happen in baseball. Last year just 25% of stock funds matched the S&P 500. In 1995 the number was a pitiful 16%, and in 1994 it was 23%, according to Lipper Analytical Services. If fund managers simply threw darts at a stock table, you'd expect more to match the benchmark...
...happen: Samuel Beckett rewritten for Simpson-Bruckheimer. Part of the joke here is that Spoon and Stretch, who are less performance artists than petty criminals, suffer from welfare-state dependency. And, in Michigan, this is the wrong state to depend on. Public servants are ignorant or lazy or just plain crazy."The film's villains are from Central Casting, the cops from Keystone," says TIME's Richard Corliss. " But that's not what matters. Taking a page from the Martin Scorsese handbook, Curtis Hall smartly heightens moments with epic visual declarations (slo-mo, negative images, gigantic closeups). The speeches...
...view that "great Presidents don't do great things. Great Presidents get a lot of other people to do great things." This is a tautology, since getting others to do great things--persuading Congress to pass campaign-finance reform, say--is itself doing something great. It is also just plain wrong. The most effective Presidents, as the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote last month in the New York Times Magazine, put their own careers on the line. They "all took risks in pursuit of their ideals. They all provoked intense controversy. They all, except Washington, divided the nation before...
...Sometimes we try a little too hard to get creative with ethnic food," Condenzio said. "Students want it plain, simple and good...every...