Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company I work for shall remain nameless, but it is a software manufacturer located in a suburb of Seattle. (Hint: the Janet Reno fan club has been disbanded.) This company prides itself on being different from other big companies, and it probably is in some ways. (Are there bare feet in the cafeteria at Procter & Gamble?) But maybe it is less different than it thinks...
...longer. Using an exacting imaging technique called X-ray crystallography that shows the precise spatial relationship of atoms within a large molecule, the team of scientists was able to lay bare the structure of the gp120 protein and its two favorite receptors...
This is the moment of existential dread. Naked onstage, with no props, no scenery, no place to hide. The audience is rapacious in its demands: loosen our inhibitions; make us laugh. Onstage, life is stripped to bare essentials. The voice, the timing, the jokes are your only weapons. Every second of uneasy silence is a little death. I launch into my monologue: "You've been reading about Kenneth Starr and grand-jury leaks. Well, I can't get one. I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of investigative reporters." A small laugh, less than a guffaw, more than a titter. But that...
Then, to cover up your bare walls, stop off atPix Poster Cellar (elusively located on the secondfloor of 1105 Mass. Ave.) and find some artsyprints. Newbury Comics on JFK St. is anotherposter palace...
...Clinic Foundation. Today I will undergo an all-day physical examination designed to ferret out the body's early warning signs, nascent failings and pending catastrophes. Dozens of similar executive health programs have sprung up around the country, prompted by the proliferation of HMOs, which generally restrict physicals to bare-bones essentials, and by a rapidly aging population in need of greater care. The cost of these thorough examinations can run high--from $1,200 to $2,500--and is generally not reimbursable by insurance companies. Rather, employers often insist that their executives have an examination, and pick...