As a result, approaching workers about unpleasant subjects such as insubordination, poor performance or plain bad behavior can be difficult.
Changing business conditions, upstart competition, bad luck and just plain dumb decisions can knock the highest-flying companies off the Fab 50.
For others, economic strain, family estrangement, the pressure of others' expectations, overtaxed schedules and plain old exhaustion can mount and crush the happiness out a season that was previously a source of comfort.
Plain coconut waters can be an ideal beverage for those who are looking for a drink that is less sweet than soda or juice, but the calories can add up if you are not careful.
And, on a day-to-day level, just plain good people management can be a huge incentive.
As Brook and Watkins make plain, only governments can create monopolies, whereas success in the private sector always leads to the new competitive entrants.
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And where can they get plain but well-made furniture and household items that fit nicely into their tiny apartments?
Has he merely delayed a move long backed by many Democrats as plain common sense so he can deploy it to maximum effect, months away from an election?
Copywriters, especially, can benefit from plain language and clear sentences.
And I remain impressed that for less than the price of a cup of coffee, I can pop a plain envelope into a box and have confidence, more often than not, that it will be delivered halfway around the world.
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Songs tagged for violent content and live shows that ended in food fights... well, that may or may not be "just plain fun, " but those can be checked off the list, too.
One task, also of interest to macroeconomists, is to work out what central bankers should do about bubbles now that it is plain that they do occur and can cause great damage when they burst.
To the list of job titles he's held at Apple Computer , which so far include co-founder, special consultant, interim CEO, and now just plain CEO, Steven Jobs can now add software beta-tester.
The results can range from adorable to plain disturbing (certain words are banned, obviously).
Living out of a hotel for that period of time can get expensive and just plain tiring.
In some hands, the effect can be kitsch or just plain crass.
From the whitewashed villas you can survey elephants crossing the plain.
This list of rules is simply my accumulated common sense, learned in victory and defeat (lots of defeat) and it can be applied to a plain vanilla portfolio within one day.
That cold current is the reason why Peru's coastal plain is a desert (whose soil can be made fertile when irrigated by the waters of rivers rushing down from the Andes).
Business executives complain that IBRA can be difficult and sometimes just plain amateurish.
Simple language can be elegant, and deceptively plain declarative syntax is capable of hinting at a rich emotional complexity teeming underneath.
As a matter of financial theory, there is nothing magical about buying in shares--nothing that can't be accomplished with plain old cash dividends.
It may seem odd for an investment professional to focus on something as basic as plain-vanilla savings, but before we can be investors we must be savers.
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.
Can the message be any more plain, Luke Fickell?
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At one point in the meeting, students from a local high school enthusiastically showed off their amazing robotic creation made with the help of mentors making plain the kind of excitement that the achievements can bring.
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Only by making plain what Huawei and similar enterprises are up to can the threat they pose be properly understood - and countered.
They spawn at the end of the dry season, so that the coming floods can carry the fry to the flood-plain.
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