Word: broken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They don't see a crime yet because many of the laws that might have been broken apply to donations given "to influence a federal election." They say the laws have been applied only to contributions for a specific candidate, not to the millions in so-called soft money given for party activities. All the same, most donors would admit that, no matter what channel their cash flowed through, they gave to elect Clinton or Dole. But Reno could trigger the independent-counsel statute by finding a conflict of interest that prevented her department from investigating the matter. William Barr...
...shuttered factories, crumbling houses and a thriving drug market, and yet this one city block--a park surrounded by houses, churches and community centers--has looked better every year for a decade. Parents once kept children inside because dealers controlled the park, which was filled with needles, condoms, broken glass and knee-high weeds. Today the park is neatly landscaped and filled with moms pushing strollers and children playing on new equipment...
...them, Arnault has broken the rules. A former LVMH executive marvels, "He is ferocious, but remarkable in that he realized that he could ignore convention without ill effects to himself. At that time there were things that were not necessarily illegal, but that weren't done. The practices that should have excluded him from the business world in fact made him one of its pillars...
...this point, I am sure Joe Harvard has broken out in that skeptical grin he reserves for late night poker games and Grille drinking contests. So these guys took a few lessons. So what? Maybe the average Harvard guy can't sweep a woman off her feet unless he's running her down with his iron-plated Cannondale. But are formals that much easier for the dancing pros...
...transition of Hong Kong has great symbolic importance for the Chinese people. It signifies the unbreaking of a broken landscape, geographical and political. It is the first step toward a "Greater China," so to speak, a revival of a brand of Chinese nationalism. "Hong Kong now, Taiwan next" is the idea, as many Chinese officials would put in explicit terms. But the matter at hand is whether Hong Kong can retain its strong position in the world in the midst of the identity shuffling it will endure in years to come...