Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body builder and several guests who were hoping to win free cosmetic surgery, was called "the smelly underpants of late-night television" by the L.A. Times, "the dregs of the dregs" by the Washington Post and, probably most hurtful of all, considering Stern's huge fan base in Utah, "sheer torture to watch" by the Deseret News. Even his hometown paper, the New York Post, called him nasty. Cheers, Magic...
...Currency controls aren't anathema to Westerners for nothing: They?re very vulnerable to abuse and corruption; they require massive bureacracies to regulate; and the sheer complexities of a government's implementation of them tends to scare away capital. Because Mahathir?s plan places tight limits on importers and exporters as well as Malaysians who travel abroad, it also means regulatory headaches for the governments of neighboring countries. Currency controls have traditionally resulted in stagnation and recession, and tend to move countries farther away from the reforms they will eventually need to prosper in today?s unforgiving global economy...
...power of the dress was not to punish Clinton but to smoke him out of his denial. Her privacy destroyed and her dignity under siege, the last thing Lewinsky wants to do is spend the fall and next spring answering prurient questions from Congressmen about her private life. The sheer possibility of semen on the dress would be like truth serum in Clinton's orange juice: Nothing like a DNA test to bring out the best in a man. Sure enough, no sooner had the dress made its way to the FBI lab than Clinton's aides began to hint...
...writers, knows each of them intimately, faces their problems and rejoices at the resolutions. Gathering the novel together, Thomas Beller asked each writer to write a story about something that matters to them. The result: a wide-ranging account of contemporary life. Almost as impressive as the sheer variety of topics and the sincerity with which they are presented, is the range of writing styles used to illustrate the points of the essays...
President of Radcliffe College Linda S. Wilson has been on vacation in Maine for most of the summer and Nancy-Beth G. Sheer '71, chair of the Board of Trustees, has not returned phone calls from The Crimson for over a month, because she has nothing to report, according to Lyn Chamberlin, director of communications for Radcliffe...