Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minor renovations due to start this week will include replacing roof slates broken by snowfalls, polishing the wood and brass fixtures and "high dusting," that is, professional cleaning and oiling the walls up to a height of 32 feet, said HRE building manager Bob Hart...
...court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto the floor. It was the broken body of his cousin, near death as a result of police beatings. Emmanuel Ambroise called Desyr and other Duvalier followers "sadistic animals who were satisfying their instincts in executing Duvalier's orders." After less than an hour's deliberation by the jury, the judge sentenced Desyr to death by firing...
Since late 1984, sanctuary churches from Santa Fe, New Mexico to New York City have been broken into. In many break-ins, files have been examined while valuable equipment has been left behind...
...long as a coolant (water in most reactors) keeps flowing around the reactor core, it carries heat away, and the temperature stays under control. If the coolant is lost, the core begins to overheat, like a car with a broken radiator. The chain reaction promptly ceases because rising temperatures cause the fuel to expand, which increases the distances between individual atoms and makes it less likely that the neutrons emitted by one will hit the nucleus of another. But the spontaneous radioactive decay of nuclei goes on. The uncooled reactor core could eventually get hot enough to melt through...
Shearson denied all charges. A prepared statement called the indictment "unprecedented . . . an unfortunate abuse of prosecutorial discretion." The firm said that Cantley was a "disloyal former employee" and that if he and his associates had broken any laws, they did so in "violation of Shearson Lehman's own policies." Through his attorney, Cantley asserted his innocence. If convicted, the former broker could be sentenced to 198 years in prison and fined $16 million...