Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commentators' attempts at humor: as the hero aided his limping wife through a snowy lawn, the chorus declared, "Nice day for a drag,"; a pain-wracked hailing of a taxi elicited, "To the morgue--and step on it!"; finally, as the husband entered his lover's deathbed for a tender farewell, the Crimson Key offered, "Necrophilia...
...victim in this matter. "I feel my privacy was radically violated," he says of the women's electronic onslaught. "I didn't make any relationship promises I didn't keep." In the bulletin-board free-for-all, he wrote, "I believe that I was supportive, caring and tender with these women. I gave as good as I got." He adds, "I was experimenting in a new area for me. I didn't think that the same concerns about fidelity I apply reflexively in physical relationships applied here in cyberspace. I was wrong...
When Nichols Pierre, a cattle tender, boarded the Dieu Veut, he carried only a torn plastic satchel of clothes and a new pair of shoes that he hoped would bring him luck in America. In the course of selling everything else he had ever accumulated, Pierre discovered that at age 38, his net worth amounted to slightly less than $23. Now it is zero; he sleeps on the floor of friends' houses and begs or steals food to survive...
...exploitation of Marik, Volodya and Dima exemplifies the single most unsavory element of the worldwide growth in the sex trade: an explosion in child prostitution, driven in part by the fear of AIDS. In Moscow alone an estimated 1,000 boys and girls of tender age are selling their bodies. Three years ago, police say, there were only a very few. A similar rise in child prostitution has occurred in other Russian and East European cities. In the ( Third World the numbers are also staggering: an estimated 800,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand, 400,000 in India...
...Varadero are now permitted to use their dollar tips to buy imported goods at an experimental store. Later this year, the government will open two more dollar-only stores for Cubans in Varadero, plus one in Havana. There are even rumors that the dollar will be made legal tender...