Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision to enter the race this year owes much to a broken heart: Forbes was long a devoted backer of Jack Kemp, having chaired Empower America, the refuge for conservatives like Kemp and Bill Bennett. Had Kemp entered the race, Forbes would be snug at home editing his magazine right now. But when the vacuum opened, Wall Street Journal writer turned political consultant Jude Wanniski, another New Jersey neighbor, faxed Forbes a memo late last spring about how it all could work. Forbes pondered...and pondered. He was very tempted, and very cautious, and so decided to do some market...
Gramm is trying to make up in well-practiced humility what he lacks in charisma. His shoes are falling apart, he explains, and his watch is broken. Six or seven times a day, he ventures into rented halls and coffee shops and describes himself as the late-blooming son of a hardscrabble family who "flunked the third, seventh and ninth grades" and still got a Ph.D. He recalls after his father died watching how his mother and older brother would sit around the kitchen table each month and decide which bills to pay. The bootstrap imagery is designed to dilute...
...there's money left when they get old." "I was impressed," says Don Fisher, founder of the Gap store chain, in a common reaction after Forbes spoke in San Francisco. "I'm for Dole, but I like that Forbes has the courage to take on something that's broken...
...subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that now lies, neck broken, upon the roadside snowbank, soon to vanish under the snowfall still to come...
Budget negotiations between President Clinton and congressional leaders recessed without an accord, amid speculation, fueled by Speaker Newt Gingrich's pessimistic assessment, that the talks may have broken down. At his news conference the President insisted a budget deal was reachable if policy differences over such key programs as Medicare and Medicaid could be put aside by Republicans and fought out later at the November elections. Members of Congress took advantage of a January recess to scurry home and sound out voters...