Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Consumers fed up with $100-plus price tags for top-drawer Nike Air Jordans or Reebok Pumps are turning back to $25 plain canvas Keds, the reliable old workhorse of the athletic-shoe industry. Keds sales rose from $150 million in 1988 to $200 million in 1989, and are expected to top $230 million this year, at a time when most companies' sales are slowing...
...time when movies devoid of high-tech and horrifying gore and violence are few and far between, Alan Alda's most recent picture, Betsy's Wedding, gives emotion-starved moviegoers a refreshing two hours of simple entertainment. Not Academy Awardwinning entertainment, just plain old family entertainment. I saw this movie with my mother. It's that kind of movie...
...Florio. "Legislatures react," he says crisply. "Executives initiate." With 67% of New Jerseyites grudgingly agreeing that new taxes were inevitable, Florio worked them relentlessly for support of his proposals. In diners, gyms, boardrooms and convention halls, he explained his position again and again. "A lot of politicians are just plain lazy," he says in the midst of another chaotic day. "They just don't want to make the case, and so they end up pandering to special interests. To underestimate the people is extremely dumb...
...piece was full of elusive truths," recalls Fulghum. "Elusive because they had been in plain sight all the time. Everybody had tripped over them in kindergarten -- without realizing that they were words to live...
...allow it. That angers many artificial-intelligence researchers. M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, one of the field's pioneers, is downright hostile. Says he: "Penrose is O.K. when he talks about mathematics, but most of his evidence argues against his conclusions. As far as I can tell, he is just plain wrong." Stanford psychologist and AI researcher David Rumelhart is somewhat milder: "He defines intelligence too narrowly by saying it depends on consciousness...