The news this week that Hertz has finally got its hands on Dollar Thrifty (which used to be plain Thrifty), so that 95% of the US car rental market is now in the hands of just three companies raises questions about value and the role the paying customer plays in the corporate world.
I'm hopeful that all sorts of nasty surprises will be made plain so that shoppers can choose wisely.
"I'm really kind of plain, so that was nice of them to say.
As you are no doubt aware (or, at least, you should be!), the Gospel of F. Costanza: Chapter 1, Verse 1 reads: "The pole shall be aluminum, and it shall be unadorned, dull and plain so that it may inspire none who gaze upon it".
Like the exterior, the interior is finished with rough concrete; the idea was to keep the surfaces plain so that nothing could distract the visitor from the contents of the exhibits.
It is plain then that, as in other sciences, so in that which inquires into nature, there must be certain canons, by reference to which a hearer shall be able to criticize the method of a professed exposition, quite independently of the question whether the statements made be true or false.
In the society we are trying to build, such language is plain wrong, so itís good to know that, for the first time, Tory bloggers no longer have free reign over the blogosphere.
At that time, there were few stream channels across the plain so that runoff from the foothills tended to infiltrate through the fans and move subsurface to the lower elevations of the plain where it created artesian springs and swamps, a sump-like situation because there was no connection with the ocean at that time.
His style here is plain and perfunctory, so much so that the parts of the plot involving the father seem entirely unrelated to those about the son.
And the new Palestinian state could be helped to absorb those who want to make the West Bank their permanent home.Israel, too, might well be willing to absorb a limited number, so long as it was plain that it did so voluntarily, for humanitarian reasons.
