Anyway, isn't there something plain unAmerican about the federal government owning a hefty chunk of Wall Street?
No less obvious is the fact that ideas about plain speaking do not travel easily across the Channel.
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Schwarzkopf, dubbed "Stormin' Norman" by his troops because of his reported temper, captured the public's imagination with his plain, frank talk about the war's progress.
But what about just plain old white men?
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Boris Worm says that's not surprising given how little we know about the abyssal plain.
He talked about using "plain talk" rather than codes, which are different from agency to agency.
In doing so the computer and gadget maker made it plain that it's about to overhaul its iPhone lineup.
Act III is recession-era Zeffirelli, with a few soldiers marching about and a plain tower rising to the right.
Card issuers will also be obliged to explain their terms in plain English and inform customers about the cost of using their cards.
Such information will need to be presented to patients and those who care about them in plain English so that it i easy to grasp.
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What will hurt the housing market is not the alleged excess in prices we've been hearing so much about but the plain old higher cost of money.
Morgan spokesman called the contracts "plain vanilla" and wondered about the integrity of insurance companies: "This is a case about a commitment made by the insurance companies and a commitment not honored, " Mike Golden , the J.
And, according to Ms Armstrong, the tobacco industry is not quaking with fear about a wave of plain packaging legislation.
Hitchings nods at Orwell respectfully but still has questions about the campaign for plain English to which the great man contributed so heavily.
In the 10 years Berry was missing, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper published 36 articles about her, according to a search of electronic news archive Lexis-Nexis.
"It is plain that if this law were about widgets or some other product, it would be illegal under very established doctrine, " says John McGinnis, a professor at Northwestern Law.
"It would either make them think twice about building on flood plain land or it would make them change the design basis upon which they're built, " he told BBC Radio 4's Money Box.
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Second, the White House needs to speak in plain language to the American people about what needs to be done, so it harnesses their legitimate anger and anxiety and continues to inspire their confidence and hope.
For the first time, the debate was not about moral imperatives, but plain national interest: the threat of Congo becoming another failed state.
"I'm always trying to hide things in plain sight, " Mr. Hurwitz said about a signature aspect of the show.
And as Mara just told us, conventional wisdom and all those polls we talk about all the time were just plain wrong.
But it is also plain that the jobs mess is not just about demand: it cannot be solved with more stimulus alone.
It makes plain that the impression conveyed by the president about what upper-income Americans pay in taxes does not hold up to scrutiny.
Nottinghamshire Police is made up of about 2, 250 uniformed and plain clothed police officers, 1, 500 police staff, 275 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and more than 450 Special Constables and other volunteers.
Hard times be damned, Disco embraced capitalism, hedonism, and just plain fun and managed to be just about everything Punk was not: pop tunes for the often glittery masses, easier on the ears, and simple to dance to (who could ever forget the hustle).
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They are ever the simple, plain, everyday people who see the need and set about to supply it.
That being the case, it's essential that the Obama Treasury make plain to the markets that it means what it says about a strong dollar being in the nation's interest, and that it will intervene to bolster the greenback's value if traders won't.
"I've been praying, never forgot about her, ever, " Rogers told The Plain Dealer newspaper.
Moreover, Dell's disclosures, made earlier this month after a year-long accounting probe, made plain what investors had long expected: Dell isn't about to unravel, Enron-style.
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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