By spelling out the choices with bleak clarity, the commission prepared the ground for the sweeping changes that it recommended in its subsequent report.

ECONOMIST: Reforming pensions

The mallam removes his radio from his shoulder as delicately as if it were a parrot, and comes over, barefoot, his long white gown sweeping the ground.

NEWYORKER: Baptizing the Gun

She had done pre-med for four years, but she had to start all over again, training herself on practice mops and sweeping the dirt around on the ground at the CFA summer institute in Phoenix.

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