Word: beare
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Here's the story. A famous Hollywood studio--let's call it 20th Century- Fox --is in trouble. The 300-lb., bear-hugging Denver oilman who bought it in 1981--Marvin Davis might be a good name for him--has presided over a festival of flops with titles like Rhinestone, The Buddy System, A Night in Heaven, Blame It on Rio and Turk 182! Last September he brought in the super-star mogul of Paramount Pictures--let's give him the name Barry Diller--to turn things around. But meanwhile the losses keep on mounting: $85 million in the last...
...Iraqis took severe losses as they sealed off the invasion area east of the Tigris and advanced from the north and south. They brought vastly superior firepower to bear--helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, armor and air support --and in the end, that carried the day. "Getting the Iranian troops deployed in the marshes was a tremendous logistical accomplishment," a Western military attache in Baghdad explained last week, "but very few of those who got in will be able...
...Truman Doctrine set out the basic foreign policy axiom of the postwar era: containment. With J.F.K.'s pledge to "bear any burden . . . to assure . . . the success of liberty," the idea of containment reached its most expansive and consensually accepted stage. With Viet Nam, the consensus and the expansiveness collapsed. Since then the U.S. has oscillated, at times erratically, between different approaches--different doctrines--for defending its ideals and its interests...
...that would have meant running the risk of having to play the sad music again next year or the year after, and that possibility was finally more than they could bear. If the world is getting somewhat bored with Kremlin funerals, the men who act as pallbearers are surely terrified of them. Not only do the ceremonies serve as a kind of collective memento mori, but they are the outward manifestation of an inner process that must be highly traumatic. The Soviet leaders are among the most conservative on earth. They hate uncertainty, they loathe unpredictability. Leadership transitions are fraught...
Because salaries and benefits make up almost 75 percent of the budget, and since the nonsalary items are mostly fixed (such as energy costs), teaching and other school employees, must bear the brunt of the cuts, said Oliver S. Brown, assistant superintendent for planning and management...