Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among fragrant eucalyptus trees. Just 8 ft. long and 4 ft. wide, these so-called City Sleepers were designed by Architect Donald MacDonald to shelter the homeless men he spotted sleeping on the ground outside his new office. Said MacDonald: "I'm just trying to take some of the sting out of their lives...
...foreboding. No one knows how many immigrants will apply for amnesty from their illegal status or whether the Immigration and Naturalization Service can handle the numbers that may appear with petitions in hand. Many illegals are suspicious of the program, fearing it may be nothing more than a massive sting operation to bring them out of hiding. Moreover, the law has sent a chill through the business community by authorizing penalties against employers caught hiring illegals. Uncertainty about the law and fear of fines have led many employers to needlessly fire workers they suspected of being illegal...
...mysteries concerning U.S. aid to the contras has been why Washington for a time funneled supplies through Ilopango air base in El Salvador rather than through Honduras, the rebels' sanctuary. Administration officials now say the move enabled the U.S. to dodge a sting...
...response to complaints that poachers were illegally shooting deer from their cars, Virginia game officials purchased a stuffed buck, named him Sucker and placed him near a roadside. The four-day sting operation led to eleven convictions on 23 separate charges. Sucker has proved such an attractive target that he has been taken to a taxidermist to have his bullet holes restuffed. Said Game Warden Jim Bankston: "That's one thing we learned about illegal hunters. Most of them are pretty good shots...
...political ramifications that City leaders fear most of all. Though the affair involves complex financial transactions that are little understood by the general public, the scandal could sting the Tories, who are running neck and neck with the Labor Party in opinion polls. "Watergate was amazingly complex, and people didn't follow the minute details," says Peter Kellner, political columnist for the liberal New Statesman magazine. "But there came a time when it wasn't the detail that mattered, but the general stink...