Word: barely
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...wish it weren't so. As a bald man, I long for a President who is, in the words of the English poet Matthew Arnold, "bald as the bare mountaintops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur." This is the baldness of Sean Connery or Michael Jordan or Buddha...
...Spinal Meningitis (Got me Down)” off “Chocolate and Cheese”). Unfortunately, this album generally lacks the crude, silly, and striking teenage humor of its predecessors. “Object” and “My Own Bare Hands” have some satirical merit, making light of the objectification of women and the rock star mentality, respectively. But the album as a whole is somewhat dry, and even when it ventures into the territory of outright silliness as in “Friends” or “Shamemaker...
Indeed, it would be hard to argue that new site improves the relationship between the University community and HMC. It touts the achievements of HMC, which are indeed impressive. Several tables and charts allow users to understand HMC’s profits. There is even a bare bones organizational chart which shows the seven subunits of HMC, in case you wanted to know that HMC has its own internal IT department. Yet crucial information about HMC’s structure and investments is notably absent...
This veil of secrecy, however, is to some extent a necessity because openness could hurt the bottom line. If other investors knew how HMC was making its money, they could make the same investments, bidding up asset prices and cutting into its returns. Its techniques would also be laid bare for others to imitate...
...sometime resident of Bolivia, Peru, Spain, France, and the United States, Vargas Llosa’s life has been, in many ways, as cosmopolitan and as diverse as the Bad Girl’s is. Indeed, it is the book’s cosmopolitanism that fills out the rather bare plotline and gives it a modern, worldly shape. Each episode between the good boy and the bad girl is unique only because of the backdrop on which it takes place, whether they’re among postmodern intellectuals and would-be revolutionaries in France or smugglers pushing illegal substances...