Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Desperate is right. Though Soviet citizens have long sought valuta -- convertible currency with real purchasing power -- the country's worsening economy has turned the search for dollars and marks into a manic scramble. With store shelves almost bare, the ruble is worth about as much as Monopoly money. As increasing numbers of Soviets travel abroad and more foreigners visit the U.S.S.R., Soviets have been exposed to a wide variety of goods that they had not seen before. It's only natural that they develop consumer envy and try to keep up with the Joneskys. Even the government is getting...
Gangs have existed in Los Angeles since the turn of the century, but they have been turned into small armies by drugs and money and the violence that goes with them. Combat has changed from bare knuckles and knives to random shots at an enemy who is tracked from a distance, is usually faceless and is therefore all the easier to gun down without remorse. Not all gang members deal drugs, just as not all drug dealers belong to gangs, but the flow of drug money has infiltrated every crevice, creating a hyperinflation of shooting...
...first round they are up against veteran squads from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Italy, a three-time champion. Bookmakers give the U.S only a 1-in-500 chance of bringing home the Cup. But U.S. Coach Bob Gansler gamely vows that his boys are "going to come out and bare our teeth. Hopefully, we'll make it into the second round...
...economic and cultural arenas. Some are just a bit strange, while others are downright dangerous. It's important to know which kind you're dealing with. No one will announce that he is out to destroy society or that he is against the interests of the people; he will bare his chest and claim to be marching under the banner of revolution and the people's interests. But people are beginning to see things more clearly. They know who their real friends are. They're giving credit where it's due -- to those who are genuinely devoted to perestroika...
...barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for about $1. One section of the Dome has been turned into a really excellent fish restaurant (Michelin gives it one star), with a comfortably old-fashioned decor...