Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flashing and sirens screaming, ambulances all across the U.S. rushed patients to hospitals run by Columbia/HCA Healthcare last week. But those were not the only emergencies taking place at the country's largest hospital company. Even as Columbia was growing and doing record business, a fight for survival had broken out inside the executive suite after swarms of federal agents descended on various Columbia offices two weeks ago. The climax came at 8:30 a.m. last Friday, following an extraordinary board meeting held late into the previous night, when directors wrapped up the terms of the resignations of chairman...
...chairman and was growing increasingly disenchanted with Scott's leadership, wasted no time in signaling his willingness to cooperate with federal investigators. Frist said he was "dead serious" about addressing Washington's concerns and would launch at least three internal probes this week to ascertain whether company managers had broken any laws...
What he means, although he won't come out and say it, is that although the grain might be broken out in case of a truly bad recession, its root purpose is as a reserve to tide people over in the tough days just before the Second Coming...
Hinckley puts it another way. "We're celebrating this year the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers," he says. "From that pioneer beginning, in this desert valley where a plow had never before broken the soil, to what you see today...this is a story of success." It would be unwise to bet against more of the same...
...middle-class and upper-middle-class homes the following scenario is played out daily. Wife and Husband have decided to buy a new family car, their last one having been rendered immobile by the accumulated weight of gum wads, empty juice boxes and broken plastic toys from McDonald's Happy Meals. Do they go with the stolid minivan or the racy sport-ute? They consult consumer guides. They compare prices. They make, if they have the stomach for it, a few desultory visits to a variety of reptilian car salesmen. And they gather promotional brochures...