Word: barings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...could get Brownback to join her on the Afterschool Caucuses--an official group of 81 Representatives and 36 Senators--by mumbling the word abortion and telling him there were free milk and cookies. I had known Brownback when he was running for President, and his campaign finances were pretty bare. "I'll find the best bakery in town," she said. "You gave me a good tip. That's good advocating...
...elementary school was destroyed, taking with it the lives of more than 400 students. The green mountains that surround the town look as if they have been clawed by angry giants; landslides have stripped the slopes bare, burying roads and dumping tons of rock and soil into the nearby Min River. At one entrance to the town a raised highway has been cut down like a ribbon. At the other end a car sits in an intersection, crushed by a boulder. A traffic police station tilts at a nauseating angle. Most of the town has been cleared of bodies...
...walls. So isolated is their base - the Taliban control part of the road between Zeebrugge and battlegroup headquarters -that they depend on helicopter drops for everything from food to entertainment. And when the helicopters don't come, they have to make do with whatever they have. Today they relax, bare-chested, in shorts. They wander around in plastic sandals and listen to the Police and the Eagles. "Hotel California," with its iconic line, "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave," has special meaning for the men waiting...
...amidst their grim surroundings, the youth captured humor and beauty in their photos. Peter Ndolo, now 21, one of eight children, photographed a boy clutching a bright yellow daisy, which fills almost the entire frame except for a glimpse of zinc-roofed shacks. At 14, Julius Mwelu snapped a bare-chested boy in shimmering boxing shorts flexing his adolescent biceps in front of his rickety home. Hundreds of such photos document both the trials and joys of slum life as viewed through the keen eyes of those who live there. The show offers a refreshing counterpoint to the steady stream...
...were reduced to heaps and corpses lay on the sidewalks, rescue operations resembled an invasion. Military vehicles ranging from heavy trucks to jeeps, ambulances and mobile kitchens were everywhere. So were People's Liberation Army soldiers and the paramilitary People's Armed Police, who used improvised pry bars and bare hands to try to get to survivors, and who stepped in to control emotional crowds of victims' relatives...