He talked about using "plain talk" rather than codes, which are different from agency to agency.

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After he retired from Gannett, Neuharth continued to write "Plain Talk, " a weekly column for USA Today.

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He relishes crunching numbers, and has an instinct for plain talk as well as for broad comedy.

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Pennington said he has a team studying "plain talk" processes.

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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.

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If Americans want straight talk and plain truth, they should take a good close look at John McCain.

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The state's reasons to talk are plain.

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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.

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And as Mara just told us, conventional wisdom and all those polls we talk about all the time were just plain wrong.

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