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Despite the new forms' plain-language requirement, some experts still see room for improvement—especially the details regarding conflicts of interest, which can be sprinkled across dozens of pages.

Investors Get Better Tools To Price Financial Advisers Ian Salisbury 2011

Incidentally, as a superb example of plain-language common sense, the Supreme Court judgement is well worth reading in full.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

Starting this year, the Joint Commission, the group that accredits hospitals, is requiring them to use plain-language materials and to "communicate in a manner that meets the patient's oral and written communication needs" in providing care.

Many Americans have poor health literacy 2011

• General unsecured creditors of the company's commercial-paper unit can expect to recover just under 51 cents on the dollar, up from between 29 cents and 44 cents on the dollar in the plan filed last March, a plain-language reading of which was disclosed last April.

Lehman's New Creditor Plan Doesn't Factor In Key Group Joseph Checkler 2011

Lehman will make several language changes to the disclosure statement, the plain-language outline of its bankruptcy plan.

Lehman Creditor Plan Heads for Vote Joseph Checkler 2011

The group wants the hearing for its disclosure statement, or plain-language reading of a bankruptcy proposal on which creditors must vote, heard at the same June 28 hearing as Lehman's.

Paulson-Led Group Seeks Same Footing in Lehman Case Joseph Checkler 2011

There's plenty of accessible plain-language poetry around (Billy Collins, anyone?), so unless Wiman means to identify only the most insistently "experimental" poetry of the last 50 years or so as that which snubbed an audience, it's really hard to understand his complaint.

Poetry 2010

Somebody in Congress should insist on a simple, plain-language diagram that can be shown to the American people explaining this with at least a couple of practical examples demonstrating how new laws would ensure we've actually improved national risk prevention.

Dennis Santiago: Banking in America: Swimming in the Deep End 2010

Somebody in Congress should insist on a simple, plain-language diagram that can be shown to the American people explaining this with at least a couple of practical examples demonstrating how new laws would ensure we've actually improved national risk prevention.

Banking in America: Swimming in the Deep End 2010

Part of the problem is that, although Lehman filed the bankruptcy plan on Monday, it didn't file an accompanying document known as a disclosure statement, which is intended to be a plain-language summary of the complicated plan.

Lehman Files Repayment Plan After 18 Months in Chapter 11 2010