Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a callous boast. Some other assessments indicate the U.S. figures may be too high. Postwar visitors to Iraq have not seen enough injured veterans to justify a wounded-in-action figure anywhere near 300,000. British officials estimate Iraqi losses of 30,000 dead, 100,000 wounded -- a bare third of the Pentagon's count...
...fair, it could have been worse, as it has been elsewhere. The recent fall of governments in Liberia and Somalia invited spasms of bloodletting that make the tumult in Ethiopia look like a tiff between friends. Still, the unrest in Addis Ababa laid bare the factional divisions that continue to plague Ethiopia, a country that has 70 ethnic groups and at least as many different languages. Holding together the country, or what remains of it, will be as daunting a task for the new regime as it was for the fallen...
NASA for most of the past 30 years represented some of the best that America and indeed the human race had to offer: curiosity, resourcefulness, courage and a dream. But now the agency's agenda seems bare except for what one Congresswoman described recently as an empty garage. Forty billion dollars is too much for a space station that does nothing -- not when there are real adventures and real science on which to spend the money. Commenting on the brave new do-nothing space station, John Logsdon, a space policy analyst at George Washington University, said that canceling the space...
...children looked thinner," noted Chicago urologist Emil Totonchi, who also judged his brother, a Baghdad physician, to be "clinically depressed." Said Totonchi: "When I looked into the faces of my relatives, I saw there was something major lacking. I didn't see much of life or hope -- just bare existence projected so strongly...
...therapeutic" religions, we find it hard to imagine the power of blasphemy to the Surrealists. All the same, Ernst came up with the funniest antireligious joke in modern art -- the famous (and, alas, rarely seen) parody of a Renaissance Madonna, in which Mary is whaling Jesus on his bare bottom before a trio of witnesses, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and Ernst himself...