Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton announced today that he'll convene a bipartisan meeting of governors and mayors in January in an effort to fix "our country's broken welfare system." In a clear effort to beat GOP welfare-bashers to the high ground as part of his centrist post-election swing, Clinton -- in a statement -- described the current welfare system as a "bad deal for the taxpayers who pay the bills and for the families who are trapped on it." Newly-empowered GOP leaders, meanwhile, have their own designs on the issue: House Republicans want to abolish more than 100 social programs...
...Raphael; the enlightened patronage of such connoisseurs as Cassiano del Pozzo or Cardinal Barberini, for whom he painted his supreme utterance about Roman political virtue, The Death of Germanicus, 1628. Above all, there were the traces of ancient Rome, a buried organism whose disarrayed bones protruded everywhere: columns, capitals, broken herms, arches, battle sarcophaguses, furnishing Poussin with a repertoire of prototypes to which his imagination would ceaselessly return. Poussin had to live in Rome in order to become the leading French painter of his age, changing the status of French art from afar by the gravitational force...
...While infighting in Lebanon is an old phenomenon, in the Gaza Strip, it was something new. "All the factions had sworn that they would never resort to violence," said Ziad Abu-Amr, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. "Now taboos have been broken. The glass has been shattered. So we are waiting for another round. Are the conditions of the + first round still present? Yes, and more...
Feld said that the cycle of juvenile crime should be broken with a greater emphasis on social programs and education--not by a special court system...
...Francis has never defeated Harvard in three tries, and don't expect that streak to be broken...