Leave the metropolitan elite to their mocha lattes and talk to the Plain People of Britain and the picture is, as Harris points out, rather different.
And, on a day-to-day level, just plain good people management can be a huge incentive.
They are ever the simple, plain, everyday people who see the need and set about to supply it.
And according to a story in The New York Times, even plain vanilla has people lining up to try liquid nitrogen ice cream.
And telling good stories, it turns out, is more powerful than giving people the plain facts.
The consumerization of software meanwhile illustrates how people are just plain fed up with big company decision making, and they are opting instead to freelance their IT purchases.
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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.
Mr. Smith also advises companies to ensure that people with motor disabilities can navigate websites without the use of a mouse, and to use plain language and a strong design to aid people with cognitive or intellectual disabilities.
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.
And 50 percent of the things that we normal people firmly believe are just plain dead wrong.
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Lushan, where the quake struck, is home to 1.5 million people where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau.
Its lobby in Europe is much exercised by recent statements of Muwafaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, who makes it plain he wants the camp disbanded and its people sent abroad, mostly to Iran, whose rulers have become more vociferous in calling its fellow reigning Shias in Baghdad to send them back.
People say I speak openly and in plain language, and that they easily understand what I say.
People living in Imber, on Salisbury Plain, were evacuated in December 1943 and were never allowed to return.
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The people I talked to said it is plain and simple: bacon.
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People living in Imber, on Salisbury Plain, were evacuated in December 1943 and have never been allowed to return.
The smart people at News Corp. are being plain stupid, though, if they think they have weeks to get their bugs squashed.
People sensed that it was unworkable and just plain wrong, and the Democrats gleefully pounced on it.
This would hit people who saved in Roth IRAs or just plain old saving (not IRA or 401k).
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Plain language is especially meaningful for websites like this one, where people go to learn about things that affect their everyday lives.
At peak times, up to 16 bullet trains an hour travel each way along the densely populated coastal plain that is home to over half of Japan's 128m people.
They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km (150 miles) from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.
Savile used his celebrity to "hide in plain sight" as he opportunistically preyed on the children and young people with whom he came into contact as he presented BBC children's show "Jim'll Fix It" and music show "Top of the Pops, " the report said.
Plain packaging is seen by campaigners as the next step in discouraging young people from taking up smoking.
Campaigners say it will help discourage young people from taking up smoking, but tobacco companies have said plain packs could easily be illicitly copied and the move could lead to job losses.
The government is also due to begin a public consultation before the end of the year on whether to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes in order to lessen their marketing appeal to young people, help make health warnings more effective and help reduce the number of smokers.
Many people may think this next statement to be idealistic, naive or just plain wrong.
People are still giving up and steps such as the display ban and plain packaging - if it happens - stop the industry making smoking attractive.
If economics supposed, at one extreme, that people seek only to maximise their material consumption, then it would be plain wrong, and that would be that.
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