Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bewildering variety of plans offered to consumers. Beginning July 1, it will require insurance companies to offer individuals and groups of up to 50 either a standard managed-care plan or five other plans covering treatment by individual doctors -- and that's it. The options will range from a "bare- bones" plan expected to cost about $1,000 a year to more expensive plans providing fuller and more complex coverage, but all must be designed so that the buyers can easily see exactly what they are getting for just how much money. Says Brenda Bacon, planning adviser to Governor James...
Lauda Air reluctantly agreed to withdraw the offending magazine from circulation, saying that the cartoonist's intention had been misinterpreted. Was the illustration a come-on aimed at pedophiles? Let the reader judge: the ad consisted of a mock postcard. On one side was a drawing of a bare-breasted little girl in a heart-shaped frame with the inscription "From Thailand with Love." The greeting on the back, signed by "Werner, Gunter, Fritzl, Morsel and Joe," read, "Got to close now. The tarts in the Bangkok Baby Club are waiting...
...Laying bare the effects of wartime pressure, the article's author lashes out at Harvard's privileged student body: "Where do these Harvard guys get off, going around in civilian clothes and studying Greek Drama while there's a war being fought...
...Lisica is a hero, a former Yugoslav Army officer who has battled his way across Bosnia. He thinks he may be tried as a war criminal if the Americans come but says he cannot worry about that. From his office, bare except for the desk, eight chairs and a cot, he can hear the NATO planes. They trouble him and often, as they roar overhead, he will stop in mid-conversation and begin a tirade against the forces that are arrayed against his men. But he is defiant about the possibility of foreign intervention. "I draw the maps around here...
...Ostensibly a tribute to her father, the piece is really a thwarted child's cri de coeur for his love and approval, melding mostly accusatory reminiscence with chunks of Shakespeare pertinent to his career, her career or their often remote private relationship. As Redgrave performs on an all but bare stage, a shadowy portrait of her father looms behind her all the time, as if to remind her of an acting ideal to which, alas, she cannot measure...