Back in the day the plain-old-copper land networks were self powered and seldom failed.
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In the modern world, we make most of our pots out of metal and plastic, but we still use plain-old pottery for everyday items, from coffee mugs to dinner plates.
An upstart organization calling itself the International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) looks to be out to bring back the VR glory days, recently announcing that it's planning nothing short of an entirely new network that'll be all VR all the time, existing alongside the plain-old, apparently not-suitable-for-VR Internet.
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The curious hosts mix scientific method with plain old-fashioned ingenuity to separate fact from fiction among many popular beliefs.
Mr Singh's government is already hobbled by corruption scandals involving his cabinet ministers ranging from allocation of resources (mobile phone spectrum licenses and coal) to plain old-fashioned bribery allegations (money for transfer of officials to "lucrative" postings).
It is the difference between being what Mr. Griffith called a "business model company" and a plain old money-making enterprise.
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And plain old recession-related predicaments were sufficient for spreads of blue chips like Ford, AOL Time Warner and Motorola to widen to Grand Canyon proportions.
But for our purposes, LSD is just an acronym for a plain old boring lump-sum distribution.
There are fires, floods, and other mishaps, as well as plain old poor record-keeping.
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And they performed a "WIGGLE" test. (I know you will find this hard to believe, but that is NOT an acronym for Wire Integration Gross Gyration Looseness Exam -- it's just a plain old wiggle test.) In any case, the wires all checked out -- and on went the flow toward a January 19 launch.
Investigative reporter and author Steve Silberman said he hopes that as "same-sex" marriage becomes plain old "marriage, " people who may have been resistant to the idea will realize that there's no fundamental difference.
That request was denied, forcing the then-23-year-old actress to get a plain old divorce.
This denotes stylish world-weariness in the un-dead as well as the plain old living.
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It made light bets in plain old stocks and bonds and went hell-for-leather into exotic and illiquid holdings: commodities, timberland, hedge funds, emerging-market equities and private equity partnerships.
"I just played rubbish, plain and simple, " said the 32-year-old.
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The match appeared to be plain sailing in the opening stages against the 30-year-old Arn, ranked 104th in the world.
As a matter of financial theory, there is nothing magical about buying in shares--nothing that can't be accomplished with plain old cash dividends.
Since there are so few digital cinemas--even theaters showing Episode II in digital have been loaned the equipment--the movie must to transferred from digital to plain old film.
Have when-it-rains-it-pours Morton and other traditional producers stopped selling the plain old white stuff?
And when Huffington flings about the phrase "laissez-faire capitalism, " what she really means is plain old capitalism.
The glib, candy-colored wit of Eton and Oxbridge pair up with plain old chinos, brought to campus by soldiers returning on the G.
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Unfortunately, the Internet offered such an intoxicating sense of liberation from liberal cant, corporate dominion and plain old superficiality to many on the right and the left--constituencies that were often the most intellectually exercised about the state of journalism--that each seemed to treat new media as a new way of doing politics.
But organizing everything was a full-time job, and the organizers needed to pay their rent in plain old dollars.
With markets volatile and corporations scaling back defined-benefit pension plans, those in or near retirement are paying high fees to transform plain old variable annuities into a source of guaranteed income for life.
Still, our belief is one thing -- cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed "audiophiles" recently couldn't tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers.
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