The open plain of the stage often seemed washed in the palest pewter hues.

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He is modest in height and wears a plain open-neck shirt and khakis.

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Addressing Jones, he said he wanted to "make it plain that all sentencing options are open up to and including immediate loss of liberty".

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It left the door open to oil drilling on about 8 percent of the refuge along the coastal plain, but it would take an act of Congress for the drilling to start.

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One group recently attacked several stallholders at an open-air market in Rafina, a port near Athens, after posing as plain-clothes police checking their permits.

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