Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral judgment can be broken, surely the next step is to fix it. "If the abnormality is in a discrete part of the brain that uses a specific neurotransmitter, we could develop a drug treatment," suggests Dr. Snyder. It might even be possible to devise exercises to fortify wayward judgment, just as a stroke patient can benefit from occupational therapy. Another possibility: a prenatal test -- abort the psychopath...
Dimbleby persisted: "Were you faithful and honorable to your wife when you took on the vow of marriage?" "Yes," Charles answered, then paused before adding, "until it became irretrievably broken down." There it was: the confession. Charles, the Prince of Wales, the heir to the British throne, was by his own admission an adulterer...
...ascendance has not been without growing pains. In the past few months, discord has broken out in the ranks of his party and a number of dissidents have pulled away. Still, the L.D.P. has mustered impressive leverage in parliament. Moreover, as Yeltsin's power base grows shakier, Zhirinovsky's brand of shoot-from-the-hip populism has enabled him to bully his way into the small group of candidates vying to be the next President of Russia. "There is a great danger that someone like Zhirinovsky could take over," says Yuli Guzman, a parliamentary Deputy from the democratic Russia...
...plowed the plane he was piloting off the runway: he misjudged his landing approach. More serious is his capacity for ill-advised self-revelation, which raises the question of whether he is fit to rule. When he claimed he was faithful to Princess Diana until the marriage was "irretrievably broken," he may have opened himself to the charge of lying. The next day Andrew Morton, the author of Diana, Her True Story, wrote a stinging rebuttal. He asserts that the Camilla affair goes back perhaps even to the time of the royal wedding. In the past, Morton has proved...
Zhirinovsky has broken all the rules in his march...