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Word: brokenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Petrovic does not know if all of her family isalive because broken connections and intermittentelectricity in Serbia have kept her fromcontacting many members of her family...

Author: By Alysson R. Ford, | Title: Area Residents Cope With Kosovo Crisis | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

...first piece after intermission, Nebjosa Zivkovic's "The Castle of the Mad King," was more successful as performance art than as listenable musical experience. The constellation of instruments employed was nothing short of bizarre. Glennie began with her back to the audience, bowing what looked to be a broken birdcage, then moved by turns to something resembling a giant pencil sharpener and something else resembling a strip of Venetian blind. The sounds were quite fresh but didn't add up to anything organic to challenge the brain beyond the ear. Glennie's infallible sense of rhythm, however, made for some...

Author: By Matt A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trapped in Classical World: A Boston Weekend | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

Rather, when she read in Fortune magazine that the president of the Chrysler Corporation makes $20 million a year, she scolded her youngest son Mario in broken English, "What's a matter, you don't know how to make...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cuomo Discusses American Obsession With Money | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...Sunday to give 18 other foreign ministers a stay-the-course pep talk. That shouldn't be hard: public support for the operation is high in European capitals, and most of their leaders have been burned at one time or another by promises Milosevic has made and later broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For Options: Inside Clinton's War | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...becoming a taxi driver just to have a chance to drive around and meet ordinary people, but he felt social pressure to stick to a narrow range of "respectable" career choices. Recently Kim left a large television network to set up his own media company. Says Kim: "IMF has broken down the university-credential wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea Thinks Small | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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