Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their own money in Treasury bills rather than work to improve the value of their companies' stock." According to John S. Herold Inc., an appraiser of oil companies, shares of major energy firms are currently trading at about 45% of what the corporations would be worth if they were broken up and their assets sold separately...
Pickens arrived at Texas A&M in 1947 on a basketball scholarship but with no clear idea of what he wanted to do in life. Teammates remember him as a prankster who liked to throw bags of water from hotel rooms during road trips. When a broken elbow cost Pickens his athletic scholarship, he switched to Oklahoma State for his sophomore year. While there, he married Lynn O'Brien, his high school sweetheart. She was 17, he 20. "My mother says she never saw anyone grow up so fast," Pickens recalls. After two years on the dean's list...
...other top courts have followed New Jersey's lead, though New Mexico and Oregon have statutes that are similar in effect. Kelly, 31, armed with the court's ruling, went to trial last week to recover damages for her broken ankle and facial injuries. Her attorney argued that Gwinnell had downed the equivalent of 13 1 1/2-oz. shots of Scotch during his 90-minute visit; the Zaks, he said, had "poured and poured and poured." Before any witnesses could testify, the insurance companies settled. Kelly will get a total of $172,500, $100,000 of it from Gwinnell's insurance...
...through tall trees and casts long shadows across the tufted stalks of elephant grass as we arrive at the crash site in the late afternoon. Suddenly, the dense undergrowth gives way to an unnatural clearing of dirty gray sand littered with the half-recognizable detritus of the shattered gunship: broken wheel struts, a bent propeller blade, rusted armor plating, scraps of the fuselage. Resembling patches of smudged snow, remnants of the plane's once white fiber-glass insulating material are scattered everywhere. Earlier, crews of olive-clad Laotian soldiers and Americans in T shirts and grimy Levi...
...whose hair seems to have been colored by a box of melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...