For a plain-English explanation of how GRATs and other estate planning opportunities work, see Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly Action-Oriented Guide, the bestselling book by Deborah L. Jacobs .

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Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.

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In plain English, this would mean that the UK - and everyone else - would have a veto on any decision to set a ceiling or maximum on a given part of financial regulation.

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In plain English, this means that any investments in pump-priming infrastructure projects, including capital construction schemes, had to be funded by savings in government spending as a whole.

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But at least the company which had been drifting for years now has a story to tell - if only its executives can learn to put it into plain English.

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Already, the agency is starting to do a whole bunch of things that are going to be important for consumers -- making sure loan contracts and credit card terms are simpler and written in plain English.

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In plain English, that phrase means you could save up to 40 percent on these qualified commuter-related costs.

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