Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about much sooner. After all, the only possible economic rationale behind HSTO's monopoly on student telephone usage is that it is a natural monopoly. A natural monopoly, by its very definition, should be able to meet the demands of the market at lower cost than if it were broken up into smaller, competitive firms. With proper regulation, the natural monopoly should pass the benefits of these lower-than-average costs on to the consumer...
Sophomores Eileen Horwath and Beck Stringer suited up for the first time since the beginning of the season, though neither played. Horwath has had back trouble since the spring, and Stringer contracted mononucleosis immediately after recovering from a broken wrist...
Also present is the lofty misanthropy of an elitist who can write off entire countries with the toss of an aphorism. "The whole of Greece," he writes, "seemed to me a cut-price theme park of broken marble, a place where you were harangued in a high-minded way about Ancient Greek culture while some swarthy little person picked your pocket." Then there is Albania, with its blighted trees, hectoring beggars and vandalized shacks of houses. This Third World country in Europe's midst, Theroux notes, "was brutalized, as though a nasty-minded army had swept through, kicking...
...thought I'd just play one game, and then my body would be too broken to go on. I thought it'd be heroic, you know, to say that I'd played rugby once for Radcliffe...
...display windows of the J. Press clothing store on the corner of Dunster St. and Mt. Auburn St. was broken Sunday, according to a store employee...