Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allow people to live normal lives. When you have to worry each and every day about where your children will sleep that night, or where food will come from, you can't focus attention on getting a steady job or getting your children to school, and you can't break out of the poverty cycle that helped make you homeless in the first place. A shelter is not a home, even though George Bush can't seem to tell the difference...
...Four games in nine days is tough," Harvard Coach Mike Getman said after Sunday's contest. "We're really tired. We need the break...
...course, I immediately assumed that DuPont was being the quintessential opportunist. After all, any Republican would love to break the Democratic Party's grip on the poor and Black votes. Why not jump on the Jackson bandwagon and ride for all it's worth...
...Appearance of Coherence. With no response longer than a network commercial break (two minutes), it will be easy for the candidates to appear in command merely by adopting confident tones in the first and last sentences of their answers. Listen instead to the middle sentences of each answer. It will be particularly telling if Dukakis consistently stumbles in articulating nuclear strategy or if Bush fails to explain what he has been doing for a living these past eight years. Deduct 3 points for every answer that sounds like a Marx Brothers routine...
Dean of Continuing Education Michael Shinagel at Quincy House also helped initiate new measures. In 1986 a small sixth-floor blaze filled corridors of that house with acrid, toxic smoke during Christmas break...