Tobacco products in Australia must be in plain packaging without logos and have graphic health warnings as of December 1.

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In so doing, she denied plain facts she must know to be true.

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In plain English, this means that the return to the investor must be considerably less than the insurance company earns on the bonds, which in turn is usually less than the market rate.

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It may seem odd for an investment professional to focus on something as basic as plain-vanilla savings, but before we can be investors we must be savers.

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And it is no more plain-speaking, for on fuel with one breath it claims the tax must be high on environmental grounds and with another it justifies it because of spending on health and schools.

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The plain fact is that any deadline must necessarily "disenfranchise" voters--or it would not be a deadline, i.e.

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