Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center for worldwide monitoring of Soviet communications. Prime had access to sensitive data on the identification of the targets of British and American surveillance efforts. As a senior translator at Cheltenham, he could have told the Soviets which of their communications were being monitored and which codes were being broken...
...country moving, after the sharp economic slowdown that has set in during the past three years. In the next generation's struggle for power, "the domestic economy has to be the major issue," says the Rand Corporation's Thane Gustafson. Careers will be made or broken and alliances concluded or undone over new proposals to revitalize the economy. But change will not come easily. Brezhnev's most unwelcome legacy has been the debacle down on the farm. Says a Soviet journalist: "The new man in the Kremlin will have instant popular support if he can solve the food problems...
...teams are broken into factions. There are rivalries here, sure, but they are all healthy rivalries. I've thought about it a lot, but it's really hard to explain. It's just that this team has real good chemistry...
Once the Dow's record high had been broken, the institutional investors got the jitters. On Thursday thousands who feared that the rally might stall decided to take their profits while they had a chance. But individual investors, many of whom were jumping back into the market for the first time in years, continued to buy with abandon. As the deluge of orders poured in, the electronic tape that records trades lagged behind by as much as 64 minutes. When the selling frenzy ended, the Dow average of blue chips had lost 15 points during the day. Hundreds...
...Nebraska, Springsteen's obsession with the family, especially with the father, is more prominent than ever before. In these songs, the head of the house shoulders the burden of the broken dreams, and the family, racked economically from the outside and crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only...