Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Such bare-bones plotting gives only a hint of The Honourable Schoolboy's glistening social observation, its luminous intelligence and its immense and varied cast. Among the principals: the incomparable Lizzie, a daydreamy beautiful loser, "punchball" for many lovers, whose flaws prove even more compelling than her easy virtue: "not just the claw marks on her chin, but her lines of travel, and of strain ... honourable scars from all the battles against her bad luck and her bad judgement." Connie Sachs, Circus Sovietologist beyond compare, "a huge, crippled cunning woman, known to the older hands as Mother Russia." Fawn, Smiley...
Last winter Koch's own surveys showed that only 7% of the public had a firm idea of who he was. Cuomo's "hard recognition factor" was a bare 2%. Both overcame obscurity through heavy spending on TV; Cuomo invested $600,000 on commercials, while Koch laid out $500,000-far more than their adversaries...
...same time, Pepper-plan advocates make some telling economic and social arguments for later retirement. A retired couple, both 65, who live solely on Social Security payments, must scrape by on a bare-bones average income of $400 a month, or $4,800 a year. Some 3.3 million elderly people exist on incomes that are below the individual poverty level of $2,730 a year. By allowing these people to work, the pro-Pepper argument goes, some of the pressure on the strapped Social Security system would be relieved...
Stores owned by blacks and Hispanics suffered the same fate as those operated by whites. In Brooklyn, the Fort Green cooperative supermarket?set up by low-income blacks after the 1968 riots?was stripped bare. The store had no steel window guards because, said Manager Clifford Thomas, "we thought we were part of the community. We were wrong...
Those willing to reopen were eligible for low-interest loans of up to $500,000 from the Small Business Administration. More than 400 store owners asked for information about the loans, but many others were skeptical. They said that they had been stripped bare and demolished, that all they had worked and saved for over the years was gone, that it was financially and emotionally impossible for them to start again. Declared Stanley Schatel, owner of Nice & Pretty, a badly damaged sportswear store in Brooklyn: "Get a loan? Are you crazy? You think anybody in his rightful mind would want...