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He hustled, plain and simply. He played hard. He was one of the guys that played like he normally plays in regular games. He ran down loose balls, made shots, made some deflections. That's why I left him in the game for so long.

He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need him over there on defense.

He (Franklin) was throwing the ball well for four innings, then he started nibbling. When he did that he started falling behind and walking people. Then they started hitting him, plain and simple.

He made the mistake of taking on the first responders. That was just plain crazy.

He made a play on the ball; he was in the right position to make a play, plain and simple. I saw him just kind of sneak into my view and undercut me. (The ball) was there, they just had the right defense dialed up. I think that was obvious.

The people who are saying ethanol is bad are just plain wrong. But it isn't a huge victory -- you wouldn't go out and rebuild our economy around corn-based ethanol.

The people who are saying ethanol is bad are just plain wrong.

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

When Howard ... sends our diplomats into Washington to try and hush this whole thing up in the middle of our Australian federal election campaign, it's plain as day that they knew what the whole problem was.

What we want the government to do is to make it plain that currency values should reflect economic fundamentals, and governments shouldn't interfere with that.

What we have here, plain and simple, is a case of gross mismanagement of a multimillion-dollar contract. Worst of all, it's seriously weakened our border security.

Having plain English information, with uniform labels, is very important for over-the-counter drugs,

He's a good pitcher, but we have to do a better job of making contact. We just didn't hit the baseball, plain and simple. Colby probably should have gotten a 'W.' He pitched a great game.

Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation.

He's just plain old Ronnie. But man, he sure can run.

His plain desire and want right now is amazing. He's such a likable kid and the line loves working for him and anytime you've got that kind of combination where the line's willing to do anything for you and for the team it's just a good situation.

He's going to call the play, and you're going to run it, ... He's just plain to the point. He's not going to complicate things. There's no more adjustments to what the defense is doing. We're going to run what we're going to run.

He's calmed down a little bit, certainly. You know, you can't be so self-absorbed with six kids -- that's a plain fact.

There is an extensive sand plain extending as far as the eye can see in the vicinity of the drop location. The slope is very shallow and essentially appears flat when you're down there. While the bottom is sand, showing ripples from long shore currents, it is by no means devoid of life. On the contrary, it appeared to be a very productive sand community undoubtedly with lots of mollusks and crustaceans.

When they got there, they assumed control of local operations and using plain speak allowed it to happen. If we can't find a common, logical level to communicate on, then how are we going to be able to accomplish our objectives?

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

He was good. He mixed his pitches up. We kind of handicapped ourselves by giving him all that run support. That gives him the chance to pound the zone even more. They just put us away, plain and simple.

I also like dill on fish, the plain herbs. Lemon pepper is also good on fish. It's tough to go wrong with lemon pepper. Simply prepared is best -- just butter and some herbs.

He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow across his nose, and (Dreckman) called it on his face. It was a bad call, plain and simple.

He just kept us in the game, plain and simple. They were taking good swings early, but not as good of swings later. He settled into his game real good. His stuff was electric, there's no question. I'll take one run every time someone takes the ball.

He just didn't make good pitches, plain and simple.

There are students who really look forward to being able to see the blending of reality and theory ... meaning, making whatever you read in the textbook plain by giving everyday illustrations that you can relate to.

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

The only thing left of this case is the money-laundering allegation. Plain and simply, there wasn't any dirty money to begin with. No corporate money ever went to any individual candidates in Texas.

Kitty is just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while. We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple.

Joe was the one who had the most apparent skills in dealing with local people and being the guy that knows how to talk to people on the land. He's just a heck of a nice guy with plenty of common sense. He's plain spoken and straight-up honest and that's what we needed.

I think it good plain English, without fraud, To call a spade a spade, a bawd a bawd

It can be a real nightmare for people. It's a minefield out there. A lot of what's sold today is plain junk.

I thought we played well the first two periods. But when the other team took it up a notch in the third, we did not respond with smart hockey, plain and simple.

It is a kick in the guts for the families of those 88 Australians, young Australians, who were murdered in Bali. It's just plain wrong.

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

I think the Fed will get rid of the reference about what to do in the future. I think they will make the statement as plain vanilla as possible, and they won't try to send a strong signal one way or the other.

I was disappointed in the way I played, but I'd have been disappointed if I was playing in a women's club match. I don't think I struggled because of the pressure. I just plain struggled.

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

It is plain for all to see that the impact he has had on the international players he has worked with since coming to Wales in 2003 has had a hugely beneficial effect on them.

I think by and large, 10-codes have seen better days, ... We use a lot of plain English in the sheriff's office.

I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of impeachment and removal proceedings,

I think things got a little tough in the second period when it got a little physical. Some of our guys went in a little shell and didn't want to get hit or didn't get hit. They just plain outplayed us today.

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

It is not really a well-suited location for a transfer station. The transfer station in Haddam is in the flood plain of the Connecticut River and on state land.

I think something plain and simple and not too busy. If you notice all these quarters here, we have a big depiction here, only have a small little quarter that we're going to be putting the design on.

I want to win, plain and simple. I want to be a part of something good. That's why I came here. I had great expectations.

I think they use statistics and figures that are misleading, and sometimes they are just plain erroneous.

I think these girls, especially our seniors are overachievers. They met their potential, and that's all you can ask for. They battled from the start of the season to the end. We just ran into a really good Garden Plain team.

It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

People are saying we're playing very well at the moment but there are going to be up and down periods, it's not going to be plain sailing the whole time.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

Our government should have done everything, should have spoken up very, very loudly, very, very publicly to the Indonesian government and made it very, very plain that this (was) not an act of a good neighbour,

Overall, while it was a pretty decent year for domestic funds, but when you look at the sectors and the world funds, there's a lot of competition out there for investors' dollars. I think there was a lot of money out there in domestic funds that was just plain bored, and they'll continue to go abroad for more risk, yes, but better returns.

Our problem right now is we don't know if we can win. We get guys in position and we don't do anything with the bats. We've got to learn how to execute to win. It's as plain as that.

Our pitching was not up to par and neither was our defense. It was one thing after another. We were bad, plain and simple.

Our strategy is plain and simple. We're trying to build the technical leadership to answer people's questions better, and then, hopefully, people will try it.

Plain Street was one area where there have been problems and there have been a lot of break-ins.

Plain and simply, we care what our city looks like. They think they can get away with some of that because they have in the past, and it's time to address some of that.

Plain and simple, when you start a season, you start with the idea that you want to win a championship. How you get there is another thing. When we start training today, it's not with the idea of 'Oh, maybe we can do a little better than last year.' No, no. It's the idea that this is the first day of a process that can put us in position to win a championship.

Plain and simple, we need more natural gas in this country.

Plain and simple, this is just a great program, ... This new RAC Room will give kids even a greater reason to come in off the streets to hang out with their friends. I'm looking forward to meeting the kids and helping to unveil the new room.

Plain and simple, the Grateful Dead define the van culture. For the past 35 plus years, deadheads have followed Jerry G. and the gang around the country in microbuses.

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

Our offense was not good enough tonight. It was plain poor.

People live up here because they love the outdoor world they want to turn a plain old backyard into a living space.

Some guys are trying to do too much right now, plain and simple.

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain

Nancy Johnson has moved from being a quiet champion of the wilderness bill to leading the charge in opposition to the Republican leadership's effort to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.

It feels great, plain and simple...we're going dancing!

I think if Brad had made his pitches, we would have had a different outcome, plain and simple,

John's not going to put this country and this party through some high theater and high drama ... that's not his style, John is straightforward, says it plain and that's what he will do here, I suspect, in the next couple of days,

It is easy, of course, to fault a decision that ends in failure, once hindsight makes the result of that decision plain to see. But the essence of business is risk ? the application of informed belief to contingencies whose outcomes can sometimes be predicted, but never known,

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

The Arts Council and its affiliates bring a lot of money to this city. To not vote to give them money is just plain crazy.

Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves.

Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

You just take a plain hat, change it and walk out in a new hat.

You just can't get some of this information period, plain and simple.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

We'll cooperate, but I want to make it plain that we're not going to alter our policy in relation to mandatory detention.

You also have to think outside the box. There's no manual for a technical rescue like this. If you wait and become reactive, you lose. Plain and simple. It's mandatory you think several steps ahead for a technical rescue.

We must keep our eye on the ball; the NAFTA must be respected. Here is a prime opportunity for the U.S. to recommit to the treaty it signed, plain and simple.

We're winning. Don't mess with it while we're winning. We're winning, plain and simple.

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

We have always made plain that any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable,

We know that some of these fugitives might come to New York to blend into the crowd or hide in plain sight.

We just didn't match their intensity tonight, plain and simple.

Time and again, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gets grilled when he introduces digital-music products. When the iPod came out in October, 2001, critics complained the $400 unit was hopelessly overpriced. Many said the same thing when Apple unveiled the iPod Mini in early 2004, arguing that consumers would never fork over $250 for just a few gigabytes of storage. And a year later, some naysayers called the iPod Shuffle plain silly, given its lack of a screen to navigate through songs.

You know what you're going to be up against, and either you can do it or you can't; plain and simple.

We made it plain that any company which did come in and buy this as a going concern would receive the appropriate support.

The problems were plain to see at the time of last year's pre-Budget report in December, but instead of addressing them then, the Treasury chose to dress up the UK finances for the election.

We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.

We're mad. Plain and simple, we're mad and we're disappointed with our effort tonight because this is a game we really should have won. There's a lot of ifs in life, but we're mad and disappointed and that's exactly the way I want them to be. I don't want them to feel good about a game where they only gave effort in the second half.

We play pretty good at home. Actually, we play extremely well at home. But away from home, we just aren't comfortable. I'm plain tired of watching us lose in the first or second round.

There are other threat indicators on the Web. But what was missing was a place for consumers that breaks it down in plain English and gives actionable advice. This is like a weather report and telling users to grab the umbrella, instead of how much precipitation there is.