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*" Actuarially Speaking: A Plain Language Summary of Actuarial Methods and Practices for Public Employee Pension and Other Post-Employment Benefits ," from the California Research Bureau ( CRB ) at the California State Library
* Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking ( 1873 )
* Leslie Stephen-Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking
* Singapore Plain English Speaking Award ( PESA ) 2005 was organized by Ministry of Education ( MOE ) and YMCA Singapore from 30 May to 29 July 2005.
* 2006 Plain English Speaking Award ( YMCA Singapore, Ministry of Education, National Library Board ): The public speech competition for students was held in August 2006.
( Singapore Polytechnic ): Held a version of the oratorical competition-Plain English Speaking Award to proficient speakers to represent the school in the annual Plain English Speak Award by the YMCA.
* A collection of his public speeches, with commentary, called Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out ( 2008 ) ( Public Affairs, 2008 ).
In 1993 while attending the school he represented the school in the The Sydney Morning Herald Plain English Speaking competition, as did future Chaser member Julian Morrow.
* Miller, Merle, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman ( 1974 ) Putnam Publishing Group.
In 1974, when the book was finally published it was titled Plain Speaking, which is exactly what the book is about.
With regard to any criticism of the book, Miller had this to say in the Preface to Plain Speaking.
Within a short time of publication, Plain Speaking was listed as number one on the New York Times best-selling list where it remained for over a year.
With the publication of Plain Speaking a new vein in Miller's talent was discovered and in succession he wrote two best-selling biographies, Lyndon, a Biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Ike the Soldier, a biography of General Dwight David Eisenhower.
In 1995 Miller's most famous book, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman, became the focus of an intense controversy.
When no network bought the rights, Miller printed the interviews in 1974 and turned them into the bestselling and influential Plain Speaking.
Ferrell claimed that Miller's papers on file in the Truman presidential library include no references to a number of Truman's quotes in Plain Speaking, and in his opinion the quotes are most likely forgeries created by Miller, and are not real Truman quotes or statements.
As Ferrell noted, Miller waited until nearly two years after Truman's death to publish Plain Speaking.
* Plain Speaking.
* Merle Miller, " Plain Speaking: an oral biography of Harry S. Truman ", New York, NY ; Berkley Publishing Company, 1974. pp. 251 – 252.
They included Essays on Darwinism ( 1871 ), Faith in Fetters ( 1919 ) and Plain Speaking ( 1926 ).

Plain and Miller
With The Romance of a Plain Man ( 1909 ) and The Miller of Old Church ( 1911 ) Glasgow began concentrating on gender traditions ; she contrasted the conventions of the Southern woman with the feminist viewpoint, a direction which she continued in Virginia ( 1913 ).
The Plain Dealer made national headlines in the summer of 2005, when editor Douglas Clifton announced that the newspaper was withholding two stories " of profound importance " after Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine were ordered to reveal confidential sources who had provided information on Joseph Wilson's wife being a CIA operative.

Plain and quoted
In Zhuge Liang's much quoted memorial Chu Shi Biao of 227, he explained to Liu Bei's son and successor Liu Shan in highly ideological terms the reasoning for his departure from the capital Chengdu: " We should lead the three armies to secure the Central Plain in the north.

Plain and referring
Accordingly, the phrase Turan Plain or Turan Depression is a geographical term referring to a part of Central Asia.
The story of Madyan is the last, coming after that of Lot preaching to his people ( referring to the destruction of the Cities of the Plain.
Later, for a short time period, in Western sources Cumania also referred to the area in eastern Wallachia and southern Ukraine ( centered on the lowlands of Budjak and the Bărăgan Plain ), referring to the area where the first contact between the Cumans and the Western Christians took place, and where, later, the Cumans would accept Roman Catholicism.

Plain and General
These include: Potter's Tavern, said to have been built in the 1750s, but restored to its appearance in 1776 when it was home to The Plain Dealer, considered New Jersey's first newspaper ; Brearley ( Masonic ) Lodge, founded by General James Giles in 1795, and still active ; the so-called " Nail House " ( c. 1815 ; second build c. 1855 ), administrative home of the Cumberland Nail & Iron Works that established Bridgeton's industrial prowess in the early nineteenth century ; the first Cumberland National Bank building ( 1816 ), only the second bank chartered in New Jersey ( now part of the Bridgeton Library ); and the David Sheppard House ( 1791 ), recently restored with assistance from the Garden State Historic Trust and home to the Cousteau Coastal Center of Rutgers University since 2008.
It then headed across the North German Plain, with the First Canadian Army on its left wheeling to clear the north of the Netherlands, and the US Ninth Army on its right helping to trap the German Army Group B, under General Walther Model, in an enormous pocket in the Ruhr.
" The Battle of the Nablus Plain ranks with Ludendorff's Black Days of the German Army in the effect that it had on the consciousness of the Turkish General Staff.
General Israel Tal gave a deposition arguing that the Rafiah Plain area had been used by terrorists, who had attacked Israelis, as a shelter.
Meigs ' services during the Civil War included command of Lietenant General Ulysses S. Grant's base of supplies at Fredericksburg and Belle Plain, Virginia ( 1864 ); command of a division of War Department employees in the defense of Washington at the time of Jubal A.
General William C. Lee: Father of the Airborne: Just Plain Bill.
BWH also treats patients at Faulkner Hospital, a community teaching hospital located in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, and at Brigham and Women's / Mass General Health Care Center at Foxborough, in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Releases followed on DJax as Clementine, on General Production Recordings as 7th Plain, and as Morganistic ( with Alan Sage ), and especially on Peacefrog Records, with nearly a dozen of releases as The X-Tront and as Planetary Assault Systems.
* The 7th Plain ( releases on General Production Recordings and Ostguton Berlin )
Furthermore, the Central Committee of CPC decided to merge Southeast Bureau with Central Plain Burean into Central China Bureau, Liu as General Secretary, Rao as his deputy.
On 2 September 2005, he was presented the insignia of Officer of the Order of Canada by the Governor General Adrienne Clarkson during a private ceremony held in Stony Plain, Alberta.

Plain and Douglas
They were met by Semple and a group of HBC men and settlers south of Fort Douglas along the Red River at a location known to the English as Seven Oaks, or la Grenouillière ( Frog Plain ) by the Métis.

Plain and successor
Brooks was the president of the National River and Harbor Congress and was an early advocate of making the Red River navigable from Shreveport to Alexandria, a cause continued by his popular Democratic successor, Joe Waggonner of Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish.
He was appointed the first Officer Commanding of No. 3 Squadron In a letter to the Editor of ' Flight ' magazine, dated 23rd January 1949, he wrote, " I see from an old log book that though I was seconded to the Air Battalion at the end of March 1912, it was not till the 6th May that I flew to Larkhill to take over command of No. 2 ( Aeroplane ) Co ." No. 3 Squadron was the successor unit to the Air Battalion's No. 2 ( Aeroplane ) Company which had been stationed at Larkhill, on Salisbury Plain, since it's creation in April 1911 and thus became the oldest British, Empire or Commonwealth independent Military unit to operate heavier-than-air machines.

Plain and Office
A flying school was also established, with premises at Brooklands, then the centre of activity for British aviation, where Bristol rented a hangar, and at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain, where in June 1910 a school was established on of land leased from the War Office.
The Fort Plain Conservation Area and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
During the period, 2003-2005 Fontaine became active in the development of the Treaty 1 Protection Office that included the following Treaty 1 First Nations ( Brokenhead, Long Plain, Peguis, Roseau River, Sagkeeng, Sandy Bay and Swan Lake ).
Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on 13 May 1897, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp ( who was a Cardiff based Post Office engineer ) transmitted and received the first wireless signals over open sea between Lavernock Point and Flat Holm island.
* * Office of Investor Education and Assistance U. S. Securities and Exchange, A Plain English Handbook ( pdf ) August 1998
In the late 19th century the War Office began buying land on Salisbury Plain, primarily to the east of Imber, and using it for manœuvres.

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