Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Those responsibilities give him fund-raising clout that is unrivaled--and, many critics say, unsavory--and make him one of the most powerful politicians in Washington. This week three of his Senate colleagues plan to challenge D'Amato's power, but the odds are against them. He is a bare-knuckle player even by the raucous standards of Capitol Hill, a club fighter who lives for the ring. He curses and cajoles, bestowing favors and exacting revenge, cutting his endless, beloved deals: a compromise to push through a bill, an infusion of cash for an ally's campaign, a raise...
...rented truck and a homemade bomb. That is the story behind the killing of 168 people in Oklahoma City last April, so far as it can be drawn from a federal grand jury indictment of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The indictment, issued last week, contains only a bare-bones description of how they allegedly built the bomb that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19; six of its 15 pages are devoted to naming the victims...
...secret the Russians failed to learn was that America's atomic cupboard was virtually bare at war's end. While the Soviets were gearing up their first reactor, the U.S. was shutting its own reactors down. "Everyone dropped their tools and went home when the whistle blew," said a disgruntled General Curtis LeMay, who was soon to head the U.S. Strategic Air Command, the force responsible for delivering the nation's nuclear weapons...
...films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing...
...Dole's biggest challenge this week," says TIME's Karen Tumulty, "is getting conservative Republicans to go along with his bill." The debate on the Senate floor has laid bare deep divisions within the GOP over the right way to reshape the program. Dole's bill would shift control of funding for welfare to the states in the form of block grants. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), who is leading the conservative opposition on the Senate floor, believesmore draconian measures must be taken to discourage out-of-wedlock births. His amendments would ban cash assistance to unwed mothers under...