Word: broken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After local press reported Saturday that a broken pipe in Newton had been spilling raw sewage into the river for several weeks, many boathouses shut down until they had ascertained the safety of the lower basin...
...yanked that thing he could have gotten electrocuted on that machine," said Cuggino, gesturing towards a construction worker and his backhoe. "That's why we think it was already broken, from age maybe, and he just knocked it a little and the wire hit the pipe...
...Romley, chief prosecutor for Phoenix and Maricopa County, "pop up and go away sometimes overnight. They come into being and disperse. They don't want to be big because they worry about the focus that will be placed on them." Indeed, the Arizona Republic reports the Vipers may have broken away from the larger Alliance in Militias and then split into two factions--with the second group still on the loose...
...those grasses and flowers, but the variety of vegetation is rapidly decreasing as the butterflies are forced to forage for nectar in ever smaller prairie fragments. Prairie phlox, for example, one of the most common Great Plains flowers, depends on the butterflies to reproduce. But if the phlox is broken up into small stands, the butterflies...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Riot police and British soldiers who have been trying to contain Protestant marchers have made a 180-turn in their strategy to contain violence that has broken out in Northern Ireland since Sunday. Instead of trying to prevent the marches, which celebrate 300-year-old victories over Catholics, TIME's Helen Gibson reports that police have decided it's safer to keep Catholic protesters at bay and let the marches go through. About 1,300 Orangemen, an Ulster Protestant order, were given permission to march down the disputed Garvaghy Road to the beat of a single drum...