Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Farm believes in learning by doing. Students practice infiltrating a hostile country at a fake border, with watchtowers, guards and police dogs. Instructors simulate enemy capture by breaking into dorm rooms in the middle of the night and carrying off trainees to a bare room for days of intense interrogation. It all ends with "hell week," in which students travel to a U.S. city to stage a covert-operations exercise. fbi agents are brought in to play the part of foreign security officers who try to nab the students...
...election of not only a Democratic President but also a popular Vice President who can barely wait for 2000 is almost too much for Republicans to bear. So they will spend the next few months doing what political animals do by nature when struck, which is lick their wounds and bare their fangs at one another. The Republicans will worry, and they should. Women, the new swing vote, more or less deserted them. The old swing vote, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, who are culturally conservative but not so crazy about Big Business, drifted away after Pat Buchanan faded. In polls...
...expensive and too complex to ever be popular," Oracle's Ellison insists. "We need devices that are cheaper and easier to use." To that end, he is planning a whole family of Oracle NCs--all designed to draw effortlessly from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers surf the Web and send E-mail from the comfort of their living-room couch...
...follower of fashion shows knows that the kids don't always do what their teachers tell them to. Galliano's snowy roofs and jungle walks are haute theater. McQueen has been known to moon on the runway, and his collection featuring the infamous bumster, jeans designed to bare the bottom, caused a sensation. In his latest London outing, he sank his catwalk under a few inches of water. The models maneuvered well, but when he took his bow, the maestro looked like a cat on a hot tinny puddle...
...tear his guts out," Dukakis says, glancing over at a mirror to see if he looks sufficiently impassioned. "I'd break his legs with my bare hands...