Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the competition and the courts dismantle a company that has provided efficient and progressive phone service. The antiquated postal system should have been broken up instead...
...Reader Louise Skelly, who deplored Author Paul Theroux's gloomy view of Britain [Nov. 21], I have done what Skelly suggested. While living in London, our family did "go down to Kew in lilac time" on a lovely Sunday afternoon. That's when our Kensington flat was broken into for the third time. We still cannot forget that our favorite toys and personal belongings are scattered all over The Kingdom...
...decision brought an unusual response from Seaga's principal opposition, the socialist People's National Party (P.N.P.), led by former Prime Minister Michael N. Manley. Charging that Seaga had broken a promise not to hold new elections until voter rolls were updated and new registration procedures, including thumbprinting and photographs, were in place, Manley declared the first election boycott in Jamaica's 21 years of independence. The vote, he said, would amount to "a rape of democracy." By refusing to participate in the elections, the P.N.P. has ensured that Seaga will control almost all of the Parliament...
...blood you donate may go directly to its recipient in the form of a transfusion, or be broken down into its components to help victims of leukemia, hemophilia, or other diseases...
...Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine-gun blast ever...