Word: broke
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...says a U.S. intelligence officer, as NATO racked up 350 attack sorties every 24 hours. Bombs and missiles had blitzed much of Serbia's heavy industry, energy sector and transport network. Citizen morale crumbled under water shortages and power outages as NATO hammered the country's electric grid. Protests broke out in the smashed industrial cities of the south...
Elie Wiesel visited the refugee camps in Macedonia last week, a few days before the prospect of peace broke out. Wiesel explicitly refused to compare the Kosovo tragedy to the Holocaust, saying, "I don't believe in drawing analogies." But there can be little doubt that the Clinton Administration, which has repeatedly invoked parallels between Kosovo and the Shoah, had exactly that in mind. As a U.S. embassy spokesman in Macedonia told the New York Times, Americans were losing focus on the reasons for our Balkan mission, and so "you need a person like Wiesel to keep your moral philosophy...
With the promise of an extra $2.1 billion in its coffers as the capital campaign nears a successful conclusion in December, the administration broke from its recently conservative fiscal policies...
record-setting 55.98 performance in the 100-butterfly, while tri-captain Christen Deveney broke a record of her own at the same meet by clocking a 57.02 in the 100-backstroke...
...biggest scare of the season came Jan. 15 when junior goaltender Crystal Springer broke her collarbone, making her inactive for the next six weeks. Springer, who finished fourth in the nation in both goals-against average (1.61) and save percentage (.924), had anchored the team between the pipes for the early season, but that responsibility fell on the inexperienced shoulders of freshman netminder Alison Kuusisto, who had made just one start in her collegiate career...