Sentences with phrase «plain old economy»

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But Mother Nature, a hesitant economy, and just plain old bad luck conspired to give automakers plenty of ups and downs.

Obsession with work, the economy and plain old love take center stage in this month's science fiction and fantasy selections.While preparing for a documentary about his life in The Atlantis Code, linguist Thomas Lourds is shown a strange artifact featuring a language that even he, the foremost authority on ancient languages, can not identify.

Even if Trump himself were gone tomorrow, the nation still faces simmering crises (falling energy return on investment, increasing economic inequality, over-reliance on debt, climate change) that appear to be leading toward collapse of government and the economy; meanwhile, as a result of political polarization, social fragmentation, plain old corruption (see NRA), and truth decay we are losing whatever ability we ever had to address those crises.

Whether you care about sustainability, or fair treatment of people, or plain - old homeland security, for those of us here in the US, enabling Afghanistan to build a viable sustainable economy is very important.