Word: ekes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is evident is that both men live luxuriously by Kurdish standards, with foreign cars and cushy mountain retreats. Most Kurds, while not starving, barely eke out a living with the help of relief supplies from the U.N. and Turkish Red Crescent. This year's harvest has been good, but prices have skyrocketed because of the factional fighting. Children maimed by terrorist bombs, which each party accuses the other of planting, lie with gangrenous limbs in hospitals where there is little medicine or equipment to treat them...
...dark spots for the ECAC over the weekend, Clarkson hosted CCHA power Western Michigan but could only eke out one point in two games...
After an uneventful first half that saw the Crimson (4-3 overall, 2-2 Ivy) eke out a 7-0 lead over the Big Green (3-4, 1-3) on a one-yard Hu touchdown, an explosive 46-second stretch in the third quarter blew open the contest...
Desperate to eke out domestic support for a new worldwide trade pact, the Clinton administration withdrew its request for "fast-track" negotiating authority. The move would have forced Congress to approve or deny a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade without amendments and within a specified time. The process is considered crucial to preventing complex trade treaties from being picked apart by special interests: NAFTA, for instance, had been negotiated under the auspices of this process. What caused the Clinton flip-flop? Criticisms from groups representing consumers, as well as complaints from conservatives...
Harvard is left, for the most part, with a casually destructive attitude toward Cambridge's vegetation. People here would rather brag about the number of dead trees on library shelves than laud the live ones that turn color outside. The trees that do eke out an existence here have a gritty urban sensibility. They're A Tree Grows in Brooklyn trees, struggling against pollution and graffiti; noble California redwoods or wild New Hampshire oaks they...