Word: barely
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...third-year Tulane University student who has been displaced to UC Berkeley this semester. Although Tulane's campus remained relatively unscathed, my home, just two blocks away, is being gutted down to its bare framework. The few articles of clothing that I grabbed from my house while I was evacuating are all that could be saved. Only three months after the storm, I talk to many people in the Bay Area about my experience. It has taken me a long time to talk about this event without sobbing by the middle of my story. However, I find that many people...
Mayor Sissoko sees things more simply. Sitting with his bare feet brushing the dusty floor beside a battered pair of white flip-flops, he shakes his head at a description of an air-conditioned tractor common in the U.S. and Europe. "The farmers there don't sweat," he says. "We are sweating here...
...bodyguarding outfits, and most of them register officially as investigators or providers of other business services. The homepage of the Shanghai-based Shuaika Commercial Consultation Co. shows smiling Westerners in a gleaming boardroom. But click a button that reads "élite bodyguards" and the screen fills with photos of bare-chested men flexing their pecs. Still, the majority of Chinese bodyguards are freelancers; typically ex-soldiers, ex-police or graduates of martial-arts academies, they find work through friends or former teachers. Ding Zhongmin, a kickboxing expert who runs the Yingcai Bodyguard Training Center in Nanjing, says he schools...
...chirping birds and glorious grass) and accentuate the important educational opportunity available from living in a city like Cambridge. After all, I’d rather wake up to the sound of a blaring horn and be exposed to the deepest problems of society—which are laid bare for all to see in Cambridge—than be serenaded by chickadees in a tranquil setting where the only people I run into are transplanted suburbanites who close their eyes to the problems of the ghetto on their way to a job on the Upper West Side...
Perched on a bare stage with a lone microphone, Gordon sprinkles his arguments with epigrams and political puns—a skill he says he picked up while earning his master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government in the early...