Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayors have had to either find new sources of money or do things that didn't require an expenditure. Giuliani did the latter. The heart of his anticrime strategy was not more money but a shift in policing strategy. Following George Kelling and James Q. Wilson's now famous "broken windows" model, cops started arresting people for "life-style" offenses like public drunkenness. Giuliani's liberal predecessor David Dinkins couldn't use broken windows to evade the fiscal-austerity dilemma, because it required taking on minority-group leaders and civil libertarians who viewed these arrests as the harassment of African...
Slick men often leave vulnerable women with broken hearts, but Williams left his many girlfriends in danger of far worse. According to Chautauqua health officials, Williams is the source of a near epidemic of HIV in the county of 141,000 and has caused the greatest public health crisis the area has ever faced. Since learning that he was HIV-positive in September 1996, Williams has had sex with dozens of young women in and around Jamestown, N.Y., and also in New York City, apparently without ever using protection or disclosing his condition...
...broken, but don't worry--Marty Tenenbaum knows how to fix it. Tenenbaum is chairman of CommerceNet, a nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., and devoted, unsurprisingly, to promoting commerce on the Net. And his silver bullet, an obscure design language called XML, is about to transform cyberspace...
After missing most of last year with a broken arm, Wildfong returns this season to center a line with Mara and Loftsgard...
...subtler moments. During Brackett's interview, for example, a folksy guitar strums gently in the background as Baily plies millions of viewers with his simple charm. When Brackett cuts abruptly to a commercial, both guitar and Baily are unceremoniously replaced with a garish sneaker advertisement. The spell is suddenly broken and the effect is undeniable: we realize we've been played, effortlessly manipulated by a half-wit and a cheesy soundtrack...