Word: bunkered
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...Family Ties” has its roots in the definitive generation-gap comedy of the 1970’s, “All In the Family.” The working-class Bunker family, though less educated and refined than the Keatons, was just as diverse politically. The frequent debates between bigoted conservative Archie and his liberal son-in-law Michael mirror those between Alex and Steven Keaton. But while Archie Bunker’s children were adults who might be expected to challenge the crusty patriarch’s dogged views, the eldest Keaton siblings were mere adolescents...
...announced to the press, for security reasons. And when President Bush is in town, Cheney leaves the White House to work from a separate location--essentially an office, with state-of-the-art communications equipment. Cheney sometimes spends the night there. But, Matalin points out, "it's not a bunker. It's aboveground...
Giuliani pulls up near his state-of-the-art command center at 7 World Trade Center. But the $13 million bunker--in the shadow of the Twin Towers--is being evacuated. (Later that day, it will collapse.) The mayor looks for his top commissioners, and they begin a long and harrowing search for a place to set up a new base of operations...
...work argot) are scattered among camps outside that city, with more returning from Iran daily. An estimated 6 million Afghans are what the World Food Program labels "food insecure"--increasingly vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. "We're seeing the cumulative effects of years of suffering," says U.N. officer Stephanie Bunker in Islamabad. "The population is already weakened, so it's hard for many of them." Relief agencies take some solace in knowing there are fewer refugees than they originally feared. Reasons for this less dire outcome: the brevity of the war, the crushing poverty and people's realization they...
...cuts in higher education are really short-sighted,” Fifield said. “Bunker Hill, as are other public community colleges, is scrambling to make the necessary cuts to maintain program quality and responsiveness to the local communities...