Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian army was savaged by Chechnya's hastily assembled guerrillas. The only obvious difference now is that there are more Chechen fighters. Since the bloody debacle of 1994-'96, the Russian army's disintegration has continued. Budget cuts and corruption have undermined its strength and reduced training to a bare minimum, while morale has dropped even lower. But by some bizarre process of mental alchemy, the top Russian brass feels it can get it right this time...
While the Big Red defense has smothered its opponents, the offense has scored the bare minimum needed to earn...
...walls were stripped bare over the summer and now the room feels like any other. Clancy said that undergraduate use of the common room has been restricted so that the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study can use it as a conference room...
Most ironic about these complications is that of the students who moved into school early, and were punished as a result, most returned to Cambridge because of their commitments to the school by means of extra-curriculars or sports. The ones scrounging for food and sleeping on bare mattresses were also the ones drilling for the fall sports season and organizing campus activities to prepare for the school year and for the incoming first-years...
...race to save the living, men with bulldozers and jackhammers and bare hands clawed into the dangerously teetering piles. Disaster experts from abroad, volunteers from around the country, neighbors from the next street dug desperately to reach the faint sounds of life still echoing from the debris. Here a frail three-year-old girl was pulled out, barely moving but alive. There a woman was extricated, still breathing, after rescuers spent eight hours delicately prying away the fallen slabs. At every dusty mound that was once an apartment house, survivors pleaded for help in finding loved ones. "My brother...