The Homeland Security Committee hearing will take testimony that makes plain one other frightening reality: Unfortunately, our unrobust electrical infrastructure is also vulnerable to non-EMP disruptions.
Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one by one into a plain text document, rolling along through one of the strangest posts I've ever penned for this site.
He'd pull up to the drive-through and loudly ask for one blueberry and one plain bagel.
Women sat plain, not one smear of lipstick or daub of makeup on their faces, and not one scrap of lace at their wrists or necks.
The story revolves around three friends whose relationship is tested when one of them buys a plain white painting from a famous artist, while one of them thinks he has been conned.
But Jean Charest, installed this spring as the Quebec Liberals' leader, acknowledges that a plain 50% plus one was accepted in both the 1980 and the 1995 referendums.
This list of rules is simply my accumulated common sense, learned in victory and defeat (lots of defeat) and it can be applied to a plain vanilla portfolio within one day.
Though he sat in plain sight, no one approached him in the restaurant, and as he walked his visitor along backstreets to Manchester Piccadilly, he was stopped only once by a guitarist who asked him where he could meet like-minded musicians.
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In a recent study, the U.S. Joint Global Climate Change Research Institute, which is located at the University of Maryland, projected the impact of climate change on agricultural yields in Huang-Hai Plain, which is one of the most productive agricultural regions of China.
But there's another resource-draining plague afflicting these countries, one hiding in plain sight: smoking.
Writing a plain text document like this one isn't the same as creating a large, nuanced spreadsheet.
But one thing is plain: there is a big growth area for security firms in the justice system: moving prisoners, electronic tagging and actually running prisons, like Securicor's one at Bridgend, in Wales, or the three, plus three centres holding would-be immigrants, that Group 4 runs in England.
After much soul searching, I've decided that a plain marshmallow peep is preferable to one dipped in chocolate.
Another tip is to narrow your list to as few stores as possible, says Donna Smallin, author of The One-Minute Organizer Plain and Simple.
Putting aside my MacBook Air for a minute and connecting the dots, one has to recognize that plain and simple, goods need to reach the person that ordered them.
Thirty-five miles southeast of Las Vegas is a 280-acre shining oasis on a parched desert plain: the power plant called Nevada Solar One.
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.
For one, his success makes it very plain that America remains the Land of Opportunity.
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Wild galloping charges sweep back and forth across the plain as riders try to wrest the carcass from one another.
Plain language is especially meaningful for websites like this one, where people go to learn about things that affect their everyday lives.
So far, the cuts in fees apply mainly to one type of reverse mortgage: the plain-vanilla fixed-rate "home-equity conversion mortgage, " which is backed by the Federal Housing Administration and is paid out to the borrower as a lump sum.
But before anyone can cancel the canapes, one of the busybody friends turns into a plain old dead body, and Strachey feels compelled to clear the Lothario he first was hired to investigate.
At one time he had tried to make his meaning plain to his fellow-mortals by gesture and by sound.
Steve Jenner, from the Plain English Campaign, said punctuation, including the apostrophe, was one of the basic rules of language and he described the council's decision as "nonsensical".
This "tradition" is not something you will find in the US. What many would see as a fairly innocuous picture of John Boehner received a fair bit of outrage from readers of the Plain Dealer in Ohio, yet the reason for publication was simply one of meeting a deadline.
When I fall asleep at night, I turn away from gazing at my husband beside me to gaze upon the faces of our children, in plain silver frames on our bedside table (that is, unless one of the three of them has decided to invade our bed, in which case I am gazing at their faces from far too close up).
Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters' one-room flat as "a very narrow strip of plain hell, " they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater's stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place.
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"This is one of a long series of consequences of the Durbin amendment, plain and simple, " Ms. Wexler said.
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