The plain truth is that the Yahoo core business was in a terrible place a year ago.

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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 plain truth is that the current debt levels, carried by the developed world, demand a period of massive deleveraging to occur.

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Well, let me tell you a plain truth: there isn't.

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The plain truth is that hackers are out-engineering defenders.

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Let me explain: The plain truth is that no federal student loan borrower who acts in good faith to repay should ever have to default, given their current rights to make the debt more manageable.

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The plain truth is enough.

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But let's face it: Any measures that include rewards and sanctions, gold stars and interventions, praise and embarrassment, even determinations about the future of entire institutions and those who work in them -- any and all such measures invite tampering by those who have reason to seek better results than the plain truth reveals.

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