The jewellers want the government to slap a 20% value-added tax on the ingots, lest Italians discover that they can hedge their fears of inflation more cheaply with plain gold bars than with baubles and bangles.
It's decadent enough to be served plain, with a drizzle of olive oil and sea salt.
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Jessica was a plain girl with fair hair and pale skin and an unfortunately crooked smile.
If your mortgage is plain vanilla with a sensible down payment, perhaps the 5 percent rule will be waived.
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There is a big plain dotted with these huge, ancient temples everywhere, and you all sit and watch the sunset--it's absolutely beautiful.
Police stepped up security at the Nawaloka hospital where the players were being treated with plain-clothed officers placed outside their hospital rooms along with regular police.
The latest orders are with two German companies, Belectric and Plain Energy, and with EDF Energies Nouvelles, a unit of the French energy giant.
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Back then, he carried a spiral notebook filled with plain language definitions to Microsoft corporate speak.
But, despite such calming words, the Saudi team made plain their anger with American policy.
Dinner consisted of mussels and good bread (along with plain pasta for the picky four- and 45-year-olds).
Ring mounted with a heart-shaped diamond weighing 2 carats to the tapered baguette-cut diamond shoulders with plain hoop.
The curious hosts mix scientific method with plain old-fashioned ingenuity to separate fact from fiction among many popular beliefs.
So also in matters of royal style: Alexander mixed his purple with plain white cloth, avoiding the temptation to go whole-hog despot.
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As a matter of financial theory, there is nothing magical about buying in shares--nothing that can't be accomplished with plain old cash dividends.
The glib, candy-colored wit of Eton and Oxbridge pair up with plain old chinos, brought to campus by soldiers returning on the G.
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If so, there's a pretty easy strategy to follow (assuming you're playing with plain-vanilla rules): Just pick the better seed in every single matchup.
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Most options were plain vanilla, with an exercise price equal to fair market value on the date of grant, ten-year terms and a three- to four-year vesting period.
As well as adorning plain white plimsolls with his own colorful creations, Duffy lets his customers send him their own graphics, which he turns into a design for them.
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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Compared to Greenspan's restrained, often-cryptic assessments of the economy, Bernanke's three-year tenure as a Fed governor, from 2002 until last May, has shown him to be both outspoken and plain-spoken with his views on inflation and the economy.
The proposed settlement, which hasn't been finalized, would allow merchants to offer discounts, rebates or other incentives to get customers to use cards with lower merchant fees, such as "plain-vanilla" cards with no rewards or points programs.
This is happening in plain view, and with the full approval, of IT managers and CIOs.
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His baseball cap was of the same material, a plain-billed dome with no inscription.
Which is to say, it's pretty plain-Jane, with a matte, scratch- and finger-print resistant gray back.
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Just like him, it was very well coordinated, the plain polo's with patterned shoulders to match the pants looked particularly good.
Ask Jeeves began as a search engine to answer plain English questions, with its staff diligently anticipating what would be asked.
Those who rebel are lesser fans or just plain jealous or infected with some other malady in need of an exorcism.
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.
For one, the Vu doesn't incorporate a Wacom digitizer like that of its rival, which allows for pressure sensitivity and heightened precision -- instead, you're left with a plain 'ol capacitive screen.
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But they would vote for Mr Obama if he ran with another plain-spoken warrior, especially if that warrior questions the ban on school prayer and has a union card, two Purple Hearts and three tattoos.
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