Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proliferation of telephone technology abruptly accelerated when the Bell System was broken up in 1984. Since divestiture, consumers have returned some 70 million leased telephones to AT&T. Now they are buying equipment and services from companies as diverse as Sony, GTE and Panasonic. Today at least 60% of all telephones purchased in the U.S. have one or more sophisticated features. Says Christopher Jackson, a telephone expert at the Yankee Group, a Boston market-research firm: "The plain old black box is a relic of the past. People want their telephones to do something other than place calls and receive...
Farther from the Iranian rocket launchers, a limited sense of normality remains. A few shops are open, and people walk the mostly empty streets. In & the broken landscape of Basra, however, things may not be what they seem. Standing before a bungalow that she called home, Nazha Shouket Buny, 37, described herself as the only resident of her area who had not fled. "Basra is my city," said Buny, who was smartly dressed in a white sweater and brown skirt. "I am going to stay here." Yet her devotion to a district that lacked food, water and electricity seemed suspect...
NEVERTHELESS, THE attraction of the final clubs still tugs hard at many a member of the Harvard community. What Ms. Couch chooses to do on her own time is her own business. She has not broken any rules, and she is not proof that the University administrators are playing fast and loose with their decison to deny the clubs affiliate status...
...came to Figlow that it was a joke. The Sunlight Man had no intention of shooting him. He had come to give up, broken by grief, but in the madness of his trickster vanity or maybe just human vanity he could not resist one final laugh at the childish cruelty of man, one last indifferent or partly indifferent sneer, or maybe one final ridiculous pretense that he was still indifferent, still had dignity. By the time the joke came clear, it was too late. Figlow had shot him through the heart...
...crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly on a patch of light that seemed to have broken away from the band...