Word: shorn
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...somewhat more palatable because they at least shared a common culture. The West Bank Arabs may be well dressed and fed, but they despise their Israeli occupiers, despise themselves for being so impotent, despise the world for looking on uncaringly. They believe they are being robbed of their culture, shorn of their rights, exploited and humiliated...
...just look at his eyes. Let's take him home," coos a blonde woman. Clad in an Antartex lambskin jacket draped over the L.L. Bean genuine hand-knit imported Icelandic fleece sweater, she is cootchy-cooing into the face of a freshly shorn Shropshire ewe. "But, honey," groans her husband, waving a brand-new shepherd's crook in the direction of the sheep's hindquarters...
...country's present good fortune is also the world's. Though shorn of empire and struggling to survive economically, Britain remains a cradle of modern Western democracy. Even with all its trappings, its monarchy is a living lesson for other nations seeking to strike the proper balance between ceremony and service, tradition and change, authority and freedom...
...presidential commands. After all, Presidents come and go; the civil service endures. One of the most durable bureaucracies is HEW, with its $53 billion budget. A centralizer of the old school, Secretary Joseph Califano reversed the decentralization undertaken by the Nixon and Ford Administrations. The ten regional directors were shorn of their independence, which was returned to Washington for safekeeping despite Carter's promise to restore "Government to the people." HEW argues that its 370 programs need to be run from headquarters for the sake of consistency; divergent decisions, the department feels, confuse and mislead people. But St. Louis Mayor...
...surprising lack of panic. It hardly seemed possible, but after nearly 30 years of semisocialism-and all the government controls and subsidies that went with it-the brave new world of laissez-faire capitalism so abruptly introduced by Premier Menachem Begin began exploding before their eyes. The Israeli pound, shorn of its artificially pegged value, quickly plunged 46% against the dollar, from 10.3 to 15.2. Prices of essential consumer goods, no longer kept deliberately cheap by big government subsidies, began climbing in stages that even government economists predict will lead to a 45% inflation rate over the next 18 months...