Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called debt bomb has continued to sputter, and last week the 26 Latin borrowers joined forces for the first time to demand that banks relax their repayment terms. "We have broken the taboo of not even mentioning the words 'concerted action,' " said Carlos Alzamora, permanent secretary of the Latin American Economic System, a regional group...
...names out of the vanished past of a Raymond Chandler novel: the Palms-Wilshire, the Californian, the Barbizon. But in the once tony Wilshire-Alvarado district of Los Angeles, a swath of wide streets and pink stucco apartment buildings five minutes from downtown, the elegance is gone. There, amid broken glass, dank, urine-stained hallways, and discount shops, live more than 1,000 Marielitos, many sporting the telltale tattoos that mark them as former prisoners in Cuban jails. Squalid $8 rooms serve as base camps for drug dealers, prostitutes and holdup gangs. Nearby MacArthur Park, once a palm-lined site...
Israelis were stunned when Begin, 70, suddenly announced at a Cabinet meeting early last week that he intended to resign. The Prime Minister, who has suffered two heart attacks, one stroke and a broken hip, has been in poor health for some time. In the past year, moreover, Begin has received a series of damaging jolts to his morale, each compounding the others. Last November, as he was about to deliver a speech in Los Angeles, he heard the news that his wife of 43 years, Aliza, had died after a long illness. Three months later, an independent Israeli commission...
Faced with a standoff, the Herut caucus finally asked Meridor to have a confidential chat with Begin. Since the Prime Minister was thought to favor the more experienced Shamir over his young and relatively dovish rival, any word from Begin would have broken the deadlock. But the Prime Minister told Meridor that "in the matter of choosing a successor, I do not want to interfere." Sharon then declared his support for Shamir. One reason: he may have been offered an important post in a Shamir government, possibly as chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Settlement Programs...
...authorities agree on one point: a child cannot be helped unless his or her plight is reported. With considerable unanimity, police and social workers criticize doctors, particularly in private hospitals, for mending broken bones and cigarette burns on young bodies without taking action to prevent "an accident" from happening again. "In most cases the stories given by parents are not consistent with the injury," says Dr. Annette Picker, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which handles some 600 cases of child abuse a year, more than half of them sexual. (Children two years...