Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that kind of power from the House required that he transform a weak, discredited institution into a humming legislative engine that could tow the Senate and White House behind it. He did it with such focus and shrewdness that even his opponents were perversely grateful. The House had been broken, and someone finally fixed...
...Democrat; Newt, from childhood, a Republican. Bob was a disciplinarian; Newt, a rebel. Once when Bob was stationed in Orleans, France, he was awakened at 5 a.m. by some MPs, who had caught young Newt hitchhiking. Newt's first love, a girl named Jeannette, had just broken up with him, and he wanted to go plead with her to take him back. Furious, Gingrich's father grabbed him by the shoulders and hung him up on a wall hook. "Don't you ever scare your mother like that again!" he raged. Gingrich got the message: It's pretty hard...
...transition from old to new structures. They promised that the new assistant dean would be working by July 1995 and have the opportunity not only to observe the operations of the PBHA summer programs, but also to assess the existing structures until July 1996. This promise has been broken as the new dean is arriving six months late, having no substantive knowledge of our summer programming, and the two senior positions will be eliminated at the end of the month when the new dean arrives...
...damn shame," Chin said, who replaced the broken window on Sunday afternoon. "It's unfortunate, but I think the quality of life in Harvard Square is just going down.... Things like this didn't use to happen...
...memo from the Bronx office, dated Nov. 15, 1995, regarding the caseload. "Please encourage your workers to follow this simple mathematical equation," it read. "For every opening you should have two closings/transfers." But children are not numbers. And their suffering cannot be stopped by bureaucratic fiat. "The system is broken and needs to be fixed, but no one has the political will to do it," says Nayowith. "What possible good does it do to call for the death penalty of the mother, string up the judge and hang the caseworker? After that's all done, the system will remain...