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Plain and Writing
" In 1829, he published the first book about his system, Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them.
" Writing himself into The Plain Dealer as the " beastly author " of the china scene, Wycherley seems more amused than repentant.
The Plain Writing Act of 2010, signed into law on October 13, 2010, requires US federal agencies to use plain language in every covered document that the agency issues or substantially revises, and to train its employees in plain language.
* Plain writing legislative history, Irwin Berent, Plain Writing Association
* A Historical Bibliography of the Plain Language Movement, Plain Writing Association
* Plain Writing Legislation: A Comparison of Bills, Plain Writing Association
Many agencies now have long-standing policies mandating plain language, and in 2010 this was made a federal requirement with the Plain Writing Act.

Plain and Act
The Cumberland Plain Woodland is listed as an endangered ecological community under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
* " Hidden in Plain Sight: Slavery and Justice in Rhode Island "-an address by Brown President Ruth J. Simmons at St. John's College, Cambridge University on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Act of Parliament abolishing the British slave trade
A few small areas of this original bushland remain, including examples of Cumberland Plain vegetation, which is listed under the Threatened Species Conservation Act.
Plain English writing style is now a legal duty for companies registering securities under the Securities Act of 1933, due to rules the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) adopted in 1998.
During the week of the Affordable Care Act hearings at the Supreme Court in March 2012, the site had one million hits owing to its extensive coverage of the arguments in both legalese and " In Plain English ".

Plain and 2010
In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes.
* Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ' Calvin and Hobbes ' comic strip looks back with no regrets 2010 interview by John Campanelli, The Plain Dealer
* 1919 – Belva Plain, American novelist ( d. 2010 )
File: 2010 Sandstorm over Eastern China. jpg | On November 11, 2010, a wall of sand blew across northern China, covering much of the North China Plain and Shandong Peninsula.
Recent work includes the Spanish language film Casi Divas, Sherlock Holmes, The Burning Plain ( 2009 ), and Inception ( 2010 ).
As of 2010 the ethnic make-up of Jamaica Plain was 38 % Non-Hispanic White, 33 % Hispanic or Latino, 20 % Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, 6 % Asian-American, 3 % Other.
Although retired, Neuharth in August 2010 was still writing a regular column called " Plain Talk.
Richard Beeman won the 2010 George Washington Book Prize for his work, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution.
Between 2001 and 2010, The Plain Dealer's photography staff was named Staff of the Year ten consecutive times by the Ohio News Photographer's Association.
In March 2010, the Plain Dealer reported that approximately 80 comments had been posted to articles on its web site by an account registered to the email address of Shirley Strickland Saffold, a judge sitting on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.
In December 2010, Saffold dropped the suit against the newspaper, and reached settlement with Advance Internet, the Plain Dealer affiliate that ran the newspaper's website.
In July 2010, The Plain Dealer launched Politifact Ohio, a website that analyzes issues relevant to Ohio and the greater Cleveland area.
* Belva Plain ( 1919 – 2010 ), author.
The 2010 boundary redistribution saw land north of Alberta Highway 16 from within Stony Plain transferred to this district.
Plain, speckled, and even white eggs have been observed in a single study area ( McCormack and Berg 2010 ).
On April 14, 2010, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that “ About 10 percent of Cuyahoga County ’ s voting machines … failed a pre-election test .” After 20 months of investigating the DS200 Precinct Count Optical Scanner in the EAC-certified Unity 3. 2. 0. 0 voting system, on December 22, 2011 the Election Assistance Commission recommended decertification of the ES & S voting machine if it cannot be fixed.
The 2010 boundary redistribution would see a significant change as the riding was extended well beyond Stony Plain road up to Yellowhead Trail into land that was once in Edmonton-Calder and Edmonton-Glenora.
* In Plain Sight ( Stranger # 2, 2010 )
In December 2009, the ITV News at Ten won an award for Best National Television Programme at the Plain English Awards, and on 6 June 2010, the programme won the News Coverage BAFTA for the second year running for their coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Writing and Act
`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.
It was repealed ( see here ) on 1 August 1995 by the Requirements of Writing ( Scotland ) Act 1995, sections 14 ( 2 ) and Schedule 5 ( with ss.
Recently, the school has produced a state championship in golf, UIL News Writing, Powerlifting, and received First Runner-Up at the 2011 State UIL One Act Play contest.
Writing twenty years after the passage of the Act, co-sponsor Senator Robert Griffin extolled its success, saying:
Writing for the plurality ( Lamer, La Forest, Gonthier and Major ), La Forest held that the exclusion of same-sex couples from the definition of " spouse " in the impugned Act did not violate Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
* What ’ s Right With The Three Act Structure by Yves Lavandier, author of Writing Drama
* The Act of Writing, article by Alice Thompson
In the United Kingdom, unwitnessed holographic wills were valid in Scotland until the Requirements of Writing Scotland Act 1995 which abolished the provision ; such wills written after 1st August 1995 are now invalid in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Writing in After Seven Years, which was his 1939 account of his role as an advisor the FDR, Raymond Moley credited Van Hise with the underlying philosophy of the New Deal's National Industrial Recovery Act, stating: " The source of that philosophy, as I've suggested earlier, was Van Hise's Concentration and Control, and it was endlessly discussed, from every angle, during the ' brain trust ' days.
* Act of Possession: the New World of West Indian Writing.
Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia stated that Defenders had failed to satisfy Constitutional requirements for “ injury in fact ” that would grant standing under the Endangered Species Act.

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