Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans, like the French, end up tolerating a President with a separate family on the side, it won't be out of some Gallic lack of puritanism. It will be out of a weary, hard-won, American-style pragmatism. It will be because Americans have decided that it just plain makes sense to carve out distinctions between private morality and public character...
...After reporting its first significant profit in three years in 1994, TLC Beatrice continues to improve the bottom line, although earnings are still wobbly. "I have no idea how she did it," says David Wells, an investment analyst at Bear Stearns & Co. "Maybe it was hidden talent, or just plain luck, or even some special gene--some kind of Lewis thing...
According to the victim, the white male produced a knife and threatened he had a gun. The suspect sliced through the screen and demanded all of the resident's money as well as a laptop computer which was in plain view...
...York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., are participating in the New Century Network, a project that connects local papers. The privately held Newhouse chain, which owns 26 daily papers, while pouring money into its newsroom operations at New Jersey's Star-Ledger, in Newark, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is also giving its online services a push. "What we are trying to do is reinvent the paper to the extent it is necessary to come up with a product that people in the '90s think is valuable and essential," says Star-Ledger editor Jim Willse...
...Native Americans new age wise men, alcoholic victims, valiant survivors of a Wild West holocaust (as in Ken Burns' recent PBS saga), just plain folk not much different from the rest of us, casino-owning entrepreneurs, sullen separatists...