We usually try to stick to those plain-vanilla questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Are the Presidential Polls Really Accurate? - September 16, 2000] Reference

Get in with a plain-vanilla fixed-rate or adjustable-rate loan.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALITY CHECK ON THE BUBBLE] Reference

It now plans to sell only plain-vanilla policies and cut costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hammered by the Market, Allstate Is Set for Recovery] Reference

In 2005, one more was added at the plain-vanilla certification level.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: LEEDing the Way to Green Buildings] Reference

The bonds often bear lower rates than plain-vanilla, fixed-rate debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colleges Looking to Close Books on Debt] Reference

Many insurers use plain-vanilla derivatives that are commonly available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Added Value -- and Anxiety --] Reference

Still, plain-vanilla banking isn't a cure-all for what ails Wall Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldman, Morgan Scrap Wall Street Model,] Reference

& Co. and Citigroup embraced and instead focused on plain-vanilla banking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wells Fargo to Beef Up Securities Business] Reference

One was a plain-vanilla strategy while the other was a more complex version.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Merrill, Focus Is Now on Montag, Sales Chief] Reference

They aren't as tax efficient as plain-vanilla stock ETFs for various reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investors Give Gloom Funds a Bear Hug] Reference

When a plain-vanilla rental just won't do, consider slipping into a vintage ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [RETRO RENTALS] Reference

Inflation erodes the fixed returns that investors get on plain-vanilla Treasurys.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIPS Sales Boost Confidence in U.S., Pimco Manager Says] Reference

Or does he just get a plain-vanilla meeting in the Oval Office, and go away hungry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of the First Impression] Reference

The bar is pretty low at 26 points for plain-vanilla certification of a new building.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: LEEDing the Way to Green Buildings] Reference

He preemptively moved client funds into plain-vanilla U.S. Treasury money-market funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cash Is Looking Better As Investment] Reference

This kind of plain-vanilla approach saves you from obsessing over six different growth funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burned!] Reference

It is a decades-old, plain-vanilla market critical to the smooth functioning of capital markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Week That Shook Wall Street:] Reference

So the video clips I put on were Olivia Newton-John and the most plain-vanilla stuff I could find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birth of an MTV Nation] Reference

A plain-vanilla credit card, for example, isn't likely to have a lower introductory "teaser" rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain-Vanilla Financing Could Melt Bank Profits] Reference

Normally, however, we think that the basic plain-vanilla question is one that will get a good response.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Are the Presidential Polls Really Accurate? - September 16, 2000] Reference

Plans that don't or won't offer plain-vanilla funds should give more thought to single-choice portfolios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burned!] Reference

Most of the action now is in the domestic market, and in plain-vanilla lending, especially in rural areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You're Coming Home Again] Reference

The rally in the price of the underlying stock attracted the attention of plain-vanilla call buyers, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Oil Rig Explosion Sends Mariner Puts Through The Roof] Reference

It shows that infrastructure privatizations have a better shot of closing than plain-vanilla leveraged buyouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K. banks see shares get hit] Reference

Let's talk about the more plain-vanilla kind, which I think so many people are interested in getting involved in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2005] Reference

I started reading TPM in 2002, when it was just Josh and a plain-vanilla blog with no video, no pix, no ads, even.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Did McCain Lose His Maverick Brand?] Reference

Continental had less than 2% of the nation's banking assets, and by today's standards it was a plain-vanilla bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bank Nationalization Isn't the Answer] Reference

This week the fund screen looks at one of the fund world's most popular plain-vanilla options: large-cap index funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap Index Funds] Reference

Writing is an expression of myself, and if it's banal, impenetrable, or plain-vanilla ineffective then I'd like to know.    From Wordnik.com.  [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference

It brings a new level of complexity to what are supposed to be plain-vanilla holdings for millions of investment novices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Target-Date Funds Embrace Commodities] Reference

And it is backward compatible, so MP3 Surround files will play on any device that supports plain-vanilla MP3, sans surround.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Surround Sound Save MP3?] Reference

Investors can use one or more of these funds to hopefully get extra returns over and above their plain-vanilla large-stock fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funds Reopen: Should You Buy In?] Reference

The standard advice is 20 to 25 percent in plain-vanilla places like Europe, Canada and Japan, and 5 to 10 percent in the exotics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peso Shock: A Silver Lining] Reference

WILLIS: And I think, for a lot of people, that means they'll really want to go for that plain-vanilla fixed rate 30-year mortgage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2006] Reference

The plain-vanilla call buyer’s profits are not capped in this way, but he does face a higher price at which the trade breaks even.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long-Term Bulls LEAP Into Hewlett-Packard] Reference

One strategist purchased a debit call spread, while another trader engaged in plain-vanilla call buying in the January 2011 contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long-Term Bulls LEAP Into Hewlett-Packard] Reference

The average mutual fund in the category has dropped 48.4% in 2008, about nine percentage points worse than a plain-vanilla index fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural-Resources Funds] Reference

Investors are abandoning riskier stock strategies in favor of the relative calm and lower costs of plain-vanilla exchange-traded funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Index-Tracker ETFs Gain Investor Favor] Reference