Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even Young isn't sad to see the ground bare and students walking around without coats...
...stop giving government benefits to people who don't need them. It's bankrupting us. Social Security was conceived as a bare-minimum safety net for those who, through irresponsibility or misfortune, were not able to provide for their own old age -- which typically, back then, lasted only a few years after retirement. We must always preserve that safety net. Absolutely. (Privatizing Social Security won't work, because you'll still have to provide for folks who end up with nothing.) But to give benefits -- partly tax-free, no less* -- to people who don't need them? We simply...
...much contemporary in the books, and there is scarcely a mention of domestic relationships, or cities, or Europe. Nearly all of them simply trace the dialogue of light and dark. "One reason I like boats so much," he explains, "is that you have to pare everything down to the bare necessities, and there you are, the captain of a little boat, without a shelter, without a past, without future hopes...
...some responsibility. He believed repeated assurances from Advani that the mosque would not be damaged. The Prime Minister, a wily parliamentary veteran whose preferred tactics are delay, discussion and compromise, underestimated the ruthlessness of the militants. By the time a screaming mob attacked the mosque with pickaxes, rods and bare hands, no party or government authority seemed able or willing to stop...
...days go by, Clinton's team must quickly put some detail on these bare outlines. Team members are pondering the mess they will face in Somalia. By Washington's definition, U.S. troops will leave when they have made the country safe for relief efforts. In a letter to Congress last week, Bush said American soldiers would be there "only as long as necessary to establish a secure environment" for humanitarian efforts. "We believe that prolonged operations will not be necessary," Bush said...