Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true. Moore's basic here and throughout is that can be as radical radical and ridiculous as the globular mollusk's loss of a tentacle during sex. The stories deal with pain of the most banal and yet terrible sort--the pain of relationships and marriages gone bad, of broken families...
Atlanta Reporter Leslie Cauley, who talked to state police officials and judges in Georgia and South Carolina, learned last December how even a minor incident could affect her. Returning to her car one night, she found the window vent broken and the glove compartment rifled. Angry, she headed home. "I was on the interstate when it hit me. I started to shake as I considered what might have happened if I had come upon my thief. In my anger, what would I have done? And what, in his desperation, would he have done...
...their ears as a mass of hurtling steel comes screeching from the blackness of the tunnel beyond. Smoke from a fire on a distant track wafts through the station. A crowded train from the Upper West Side sits simmering on another track for 20 minutes while static from a broken speaker drowns out the conductor's incomprehensible explanation. "I'm afraid to get in that subway system even when I'm with my bodyguard," says Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a Long Islander. "Even my bodyguard is afraid." Although it was clearly an overstatement ("I think he should change his bodyguard...
...with a plan to appoint a joint U.S.-Canadian team to examine the issue. The President and the Prime Minister announced that former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and former Ontario Premier William Davis would be named special envoys to seek ways of combating the problem. Said Mulroney: "We have broken a three-year deadlock by agreeing to our common and shared responsibility to preserve our common environment." Added Reagan: "I couldn't be happier about getting this under way and off dead center." The agreement, however, did not actually commit the Reagan Administration to take any action on acid rain...
Even then, tragedy might have been averted were it not for an extraordinary series of mishaps and oversights. A refrigeration unit that might have kept temperatures in the tank at a manageable level had broken down more than five months earlier and never been repaired. A temperature alarm, which would have alerted workers to the trouble, had not been properly set. A flare tower that could have destroyed some of the escaping gas was out of commission. And a "scrubber," designed to neutralize toxic vapors, was not turned on until after the reaction had raced out of control...