Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second largest religion in America, and the fastest growing. There are five million Muslim Americans, with one million being converts to Islam. As individuals, we are contributing members of this society, and our hope is to become more involved in the issues which confront all of us: poverty, abuse, break-up of families and communities, prejudice, crime, and the lack of goodwill, respect, and trust between people...
Except for a four-year break, Peter MacDonald Sr. has ruled the 200,000-member Navajo nation as its strong-willed chairman ever since 1970. Presiding over a Southwest desert reservation larger in area than Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined, he has lived well on his $55,000 annual salary plus, according to witnesses, some expensive perks. Yet last week MacDonald lost his grip on his honored post. Tainted by allegations that he had accepted bribes from contractors seeking business with the tribe, he declared that he would take an extended leave, but then changed his mind and attempted...
...their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently moved next door. These people talk funny; they don't socialize; they probably smell bad. So Ray and his friends will just, oh, break into the new family's house, dig up the backyard, wreck the basement and leave the place in cinders. They'll destroy the neighborhood in order to save...
...Madison Avenue's most enduring -- if not hardest-working -- characters: the Maytag repairman. Billed as "the loneliest guy in the world" because the company's products supposedly never break down, he has been portrayed by actor Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed up. Like many corporate superstars before...
...break-down of early action admissions for the Class of 1993 reveals a curious statistic: in a year when the number of applicants declined slightly overall, Harvard admitted 22 percent more Asian-Americans than it did in last year's record-breakingly large early pool of Asian-Americans...