Word: break
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't ignore MP3, which has become the format of choice among new bands trying to break in and vets looking for prerelease buzz. So the industry blessed it on one condition: within 18 months, when a standard is adopted that allows piracy-protected music to be sold online, the electronics companies agree to make their players compliant. What's next? Digitally pirated movies. Get ready, Hollywood...
...There?s a real danger of new tensions arising because of the unrealistic expectation that Barak?s election can break all the deadlocks in the peace process," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "The disputes between Israel and the Palestinians over issues ranging from the status of Jerusalem and the future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to the question of refugees are exceedingly complicated, and there are no quick solutions." Barak plans to meet with President Clinton and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat shortly to jump-start the peace process. And while the atmospherics of those meetings...
...environmental groups don't always like Indians to do: speak." And win lawsuits. The tiny tribe has seized a leading role in the Everglades restoration by outmaneuvering some of Florida's and Washington's strongest lobbies in a legal campaign to help set tougher water-quality standards and break bureaucratic logjams...
...recommend the Gambino-family-style "walk and talk." Stroll outside with your interlocutor, covering your mouth with your hand as you converse. Make your conversation as vague as possible, and pepper it with inaudible remarks and gross expletives. Here is an example of a man using this technique to break up with his girlfriend...
...most Harvard students, it seemed that summer was just another time to get a leg up on the competition. Instead of a relaxing break at the beach, most of my fellow students were planning a harried schedule full of commutes, overtimes and abbreviated weekends. And when I began my quest to find a summer job, I pledged to keep my summer as relaxing as possible, especially after a year in the pressure cooker known as Harvard University...