1.   ...just plain vanilla couples like me and Tony.

2.   Assessing the risk of something even as plain vanilla as financing of auto loans is problematic for investors.

3.   Accusing Israel of murdering Palestinian women and children with carcinogenic poison gas, which is what Mrs. Arafat did, represents the plain vanilla of Arab rhetoric.

4.   Game plans, both offense and defense, are plain vanilla in August.

5.   I shifted from my plain vanilla American to the hand-thumb-hand African triple that the instructor used.

6.   Just plain old generic vanilla.

7.   Revitalique, a new line of hair-coloring products from Clairol, features anything but just plain vanilla.

8.   Since MMX machines are unlikely to cost much more than plain vanilla Pentiums, why not wait for them?

9.   So is Cookies and Cream, spumoni and even plain old vanilla.

10.   These plain vanilla, short-term investments offer safety, liquidity and higher yields than most bank savings or passbook accounts.