Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burns, on a quick shot over Hynes's leg pad into the right corner, culminating a three-on-two break...
...only about 1000 remaining. But last Wednesday the IWC compromised its position just before the ban was to take effect. At the request of the U.S. government the IWC voted to allow the Eskimos a quota of 12 whales. Eskimo leaders promptly responded that they would "be forced to break a quota that small," according to The New York Times...
...like the old industrial society we all have known. About the only thing that is going to save Toffler from future anonymity is a cataclysmic breakdown of society within the next few decades. But in the meantime, Toffler will be doing a commendable service by allowing us momentarily to break out of traditional patterns of thinking about problems and spurring us on to explore the possibilities about the future with our minds...
...Clausists grew in number even though The Santa Corporation hired agents of the darkest, most venal kind to destroy the movement. The people had simply had too much festivity; they were sick of it; they wanted a break from the fun. The corporate agent's most heavy-handed tactics could not persuade the people to whoop it up one week more...
...symbolic politics," Hoffmann said, adding that he believes Egypt's recent decision to break off diplomatic relations with Syria and four other nations who attended the Tripoli conference is "potentially a more serious matter...