The workers' signs bore a plain but direct message: Vote for $15. "I felt incredibly inspired to be here, in Brooklyn where it all started in November 2012," said Mary Kay Henry, president of SEIU, one of the largest labor unions in the US.
On the basis that imagination, too, is no more than a fancy, upmarket word for fibbing, acts of fiction remain unknown; at Lecture Films, the movie studio where Mark toils — he is introduced as "one of our least successful screenwriters" — the typical product consists of a blazered bore reciting a plain historical narrative woven from verified facts.
This is a bear market chart, plain and simple.
Reruns, too, like comfort food, could work well, making us laugh, or feel, or even just plain bore us to bits enough so that we might sleep.
It is plain white, bears no decoration and fastens at the back.
The otherwise plain reverse bears the prominent relief inscription in 2mm high letters "HERO OF RUSSIA" at its center, in the upper portion, the award serial number in 1mm high numbers.
They had the pleasure of seeing the Americans carry off every single heat of the 110 metres hurdle race and cheered so heartily that it was plain they bore no malice..
The numbers bear out what became plain to many harried pharmacists: The run on Cipro and other antibiotics used to treat anthrax began in late September, even before the first case was announced in Florida on Oct. 4.
But my sense is that there remains a vast legion of investors who became investors for the first time in the 90's and who are, for the purpose of even a plain old bear market, virginal, much less that which we're experiencing now.
But for investors who find buy-and-hold hopelessly boring and index funds too plain to bear, ETFs offer a relatively safe alternative when used in moderation.
