Word: barely
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...five-year plan is a luxury. Atmar can't find enough money for his most pressing needs. He got only $282 million this year, $216 million short of his bare-bones operating budget. Of the 40,000 teachers the Education Ministry said were necessary to meet the demand for schooling this year, the central government has been able to budget for only...
...Naughty boy,” the woman murmurs at the unexpected click of the camera. Buttocks, bare back, graceful arms: the whole is captured by the unseen photographer through the open bathroom door. The year is 1952, and Simone de Beauvoir is visiting her American lover in Chicago. She never saw the photograph—the film was lost for 50 years—but last week Frenchmen saw her naked figure on newsstands across the country. The debate rages over whether Nouvel Observateur, a popular weekly, should have put this photo on its cover to commemorate the centenary...
...crammed and overheated hotel basement, the painful contradictions of Bhutto Zardari's appointment to the chairmanship of the PPP were laid bare: here was a young man dealing with a country plagued by poverty from a boutique hotel in Kensington on behalf of a party claiming to push for democracy even as it consolidates a dynasty. The British press pack was relentless. One BBC journalist asked: "What on earth do you propose as a 19-year-old who has hardly lived in the country, what do you propose you can offer Pakistan, a country of 170 million people...
...predicting a tough week ahead for Sarkozy's reform program, over which trade unions are planning mass strikes. The President's happier news lay tucked inside the "France Politique" section, where one half-page showed three more images of Bruni, 39, including one of her without trousers, her flawless bare legs crossed on a couch next to her acoustic guitar. Although the Elysée Palace has refused to comment on the reports, three national magazine covers will feature the new couple this week, according to the newspaper...
...strong lead as well; however, the sub-par performance of his counterpart, Liotta, undercuts his performance. Liotta’s character is completely one-dimensional and boring. Perhaps to spice up Liotta’s character, Ritchie directs him to walk around nearly naked or showing his bare, 51-year-old derrière, but such sights are painful to watch. In trying to do too much in this movie, Ritchie fails to do anything. Too many plot twists, many of which don’t make sense, complicate the film. Even the final twist is unsatisfying. Despite Ritchie?...