Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credibility, according to the Yankelovich Monitor, Americans want to keep their own counsel. ``We're finding that people are uncertain about things, but they've got their own moral tool kits,'' says Alan Wolfe, chairman of the sociology department at Boston University. ``So you can say authority has broken down, but you can also say that people have a great opportunity to make up their own understanding of the world. A lot of people are very excited by this...
...have brought in mobile health clinics and distributed food to local peasants, the country's poorest. Land reform promised since the revolution of 1910 is finally being implemented: last week the state government announced that a privately held 5,000-hectare hacienda in the southerly Lacandon rain forest was broken up and handed over to peasants. ``It's a very important first step toward solving the worst problem in Chiapas--land,'' says government spokesman Juan Chavez...
...Saturday afternoons in the fall, the routine would change slightly. Notre Dame football was an all-consuming passion in The Bunker, and heaven help he who transgressed against its commandant on third down in the fourth quarter with the Irish in trouble. Was a television ever broken? I'm not sure, although I know glass shards of some sort were known to find the carpet (even before halftime) during the tense ones. In little time, I became a passionate Notre Dame fan, although my reasons were more defensive and selfish than those of the average Golden Domer, I suppose...
...clouds rolled by this weekend. "I have lost everything, I mean a total loss," said Dwane Matekel, a landscaper who had returned to his childhood home in Orange County after life in Los Angeles got him down. "When we were in L.A., my wife's car was broken into, we had things stolen. So I came back here, and then in November 1993, I was staring at a 40-ft. wall of flames. Now this." The fire spared his four-bedroom tract home, but the rains got it in spite of the 4- ft.-high barricade of mud he constructed...
...Colombian jetliner crashed near Cartagena, killing all 53 of its passengers but one -- a nine-year-old girl who suffered only a broken shoulder after the crash landing in a swamp. It was "a miracle from God," according to Colombia's civil aviation director...