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Word: plainness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JUST PLAIN CURTISY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1996 | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

What the Panorama interview made plain was that in ministering to the needy, Diana was helping herself. She had lost her emotional roots as a child of six when her mother bolted from Earl Spencer. Later, confronted with a shell of a marriage, Diana threw her enormous energies into the world of therapy. Often without publicity, she worked with battered wives and abused children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRACTURED FAIRY TALE | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...seems likely to increase customer loyalty, because switching phone companies will now mean switching E-mail addresses and installing new software as well. The most lucrative service in the future, however, may be hooking up businesses to the Net. Currently most consumers access the Internet through their inexpensive plain old telephone line, which cannot handle much information quickly. By contrast, many businesses link to the Internet through specialized T1 lines. Although they can cost up to $30,000 a year, T1 lines can handle enormous amounts of data at very high speeds. "If AT&T can put 50 million consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT&T REWIRES THE NET | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...deservedly so, since it takes the worst stereotypes plaguing the film industry and weaves them into a complex web of machinations, as each character tries to manipulate the others into fulfilling his, or her, own desires. No one is above seduction, threats overt and covert, back-stabbing, or just plain simple bitchiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making Movies Is a Dog's Life In New BCA Production | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

After playing to a discouraging tie against the weaker Saints, the Crimson fell into a rut that turned its season into a rebuilding one, plain and simple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Hockey Endures Difficult Season | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

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