Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really tough to have a relationship during a campaign," Prats said. "I had one back in '92 and our relationship was not broken up, but strained because of the campaign...
...second song, "Pirate Jenny," her voice became a subdued staccato. Slowly she began to unwind, which took noticeable effort. By the time she was on the floor finishing an aria, she was out-stretched in order to breathe more freely. When she sang the jazzy "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," her breathy voice conveyed the song's suffering. Though Faithfull usually knows her range, holding a note sometimes produced a self-effacing strain in songs which require crackle...
...explosion of illegitimate births. There are more powerful forces at work than a $300 monthly check. Columnist George Will warns fellow conservatives against saying "nothing could be worse" than the current system. They are underestimating the potential damage to children, he argues. He recalls similar rhetoric about another broken system: state-run mental hospitals. Patients were discharged into community-based programs for their own good. Turns out, something was worse: homelessness...
...heard her shouting, "Ian! Ian!" and then the trailer crashed over onto its side. Malcolm turned away: glassware and lab equipment smashed all around him. When he looked up, everything was cockeyed. Directly above him was the broken window the tyrannosaur had smashed. Rain dripped through onto Malcolm's face. Lightning flashed, and then he saw a big head peering down at him and snarling. He heard the harsh scratching of the tyrannosaurs' claws on the metal side of the trailer, then the face disappeared. A moment later, he heard them bellowing as they pushed the trailer through the dirt...
Pasquale rightfully cites the MaBell breakup of the 80's as a significant moment in the history of telecommunications, sparking the creation of new telephone companies. But what he fails to mention is that the reason Ma Bell was broken up was that this long-distance provider was just too good for its own good. Service was excellent, rates were competitively low. Ma Bell could easily attract new customers by this attractive mix of low rates and outstanding service. The anti-trust laws couldn't allow a company to use its great profit margin to keep up this excellent service...