Word: barrenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper remains essentially specialized, and does not convey a full sense of the nation or the world. The Journal's foreign coverage is surprisingly skimpy for all those foreign bureaus. Some journalists say that it lumbers after news, instead of sprinting. "Considering the size of the staff," says Barren's Managing Editor Alan Abelson, "they should have more scoops, discover more stories." The paper also sometimes runs lightly edited corporate press releases on its inside pages. Some close readers detect a drop-off in the quality of its trademark front-page features. "They're letting some writing...
...headed pragmatist in the best free-enterprise tradition. Gifts were rewards for behavior I approved of; on occasion I would inform my younger brother that if he didn't give me the baseball bat he would get no birthday present. The implication being that Christmas might be equally as barren...
Four years later, the site on the Caspian Sea remains barren. Harvard abandoned the project in 1977 and there is still no graduate research facility in Iran. Lester E. Gordon, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and a commission member, said at the time that the major issue the commission had to consider was the extent of Harvard's involvement in the project. Gordon said there were many reasons Harvard decided not to continue the project, including the objections that were raised by members of the commission against the Iranian government's violations of human rights...
...year war remains starkly apparent across the Vietnamese landscape. Sixty miles north of Saigon in An Loc, now called Binh Long, the twisted debris of Jeeps and armored cars lies rusting in the sun. Bunkers have collapsed. Abandoned shell casings and brittle gas masks litter the barren ground. No other town in the South suffered so severely during the war. In the spring of 1972, when it was encircled by the Viet Cong, at least 1,000 artillery and rocket rounds fell on An Loc every day. Today only a handful of buildings has been restored...
Whatever the case, shortly after the Biogenics findings became public, the results of another incriminating study were disclosed. Two Buffalo researchers, Drs. Beverly Paigen and Stephen Barren, found hints of peripheral nerve damage (as indicated by the slowing of electrical impulses through the nerves) and related ailments, in a group of 35 Love Canal residents...