Word: barely
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With his next film appearance only hours away, Barth sets his bare feet on the library attendant desk. “Relationships are so important to me,” he says. “The thing I care about is me and roommates going crazy. They’re a huge force in my life...
Accumulate too many absences and you could find yourself summarily removed from the council. Or suppose 10 members submit a petition for recall. No particular requirement of turnout beyond a bare quorum is required for the council to remove you from office...
...committee assignments would go only to loyalists. I suspect this reflects desperation as much as principle. The Bush Administration is outsmarting the Democrats at every turn. The economy seems to be recovering. If Iraq is stabilized--a huge if--what will the Democrats run on? Their intellectual cupboard is bare, and the election may be slipping away...
...with disastrous consequences. Local health bureaus were stripped of their government funding and forced to become financially self sufficient. To survive, many local clinics eschewed public-minded immunization drives for more profitable ventures, like selling medicine and services at inflated prices. The social pitfalls of this system were laid bare in a 1998 United Nations-led survey, which found that almost half of those who had fallen below China's poverty line did so only after suffering from a major disease. Today, just 15% of Chinese have health insurance. The nation's recent SARS crisis served as another reality check...
...caf?s, noodle joints and bare-bulb fishermen's shacks outside the palace, many Maldivians tell a different story. Here the social indices that matter are one of the world's highest divorce rates and rampant heroin addiction indicated by 1,000 convicted dealers in a capital city of 86,000. Although everyone acknowledges tourism's success, many Maldivians?and international relief workers?charge that it has made multimillionaires of Gayoom's friends while official figures show that 42% of Maldivians earn less than $1 a day. And there's a hot fury reserved for Gayoom himself, whom they and Amnesty...