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Word: brokenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were small--in some cases dimes and nickels taped to index cards. But those little payments were coming in piles. eBay took in $1,000 the first month, more than it cost to run. Omidyar really knew he was onto something when he put up a listing for a broken $30 laser pointer that he was about to throw out. He fully disclosed that it didn't work--even with new batteries--and started it at $1. Inexplicably, a bidding war ensued, and someone ended up taking it off his hands for $14. Meanwhile, the site's revenues kept doubling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside eBay.com: The Attic of e | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...once the homes are built. "It's pretty cool," says Ken Tate, 40, who lives across the street from Southside Park. "More neighborhoods should group together like that." Although drug deals go down daily on the sagging porches and litter-strewn sidewalks that surround Southside, no one has ever broken into one of its houses. There are too many watchful eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Class Communes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Remarkably, though, those doubts haven't broken him. In a four-hour interview with TIME, DeAngelis said he had shaken off much of the guilt he felt that awful morning. Before he was principal, DeAngelis spent 14 years coaching football and baseball, and these days he seems like a coach again, ready for battle. "People are telling me I should have known. I'm telling you, it's inaccurate," he says. "This harassment by athletes on Eric and Dylan that has been printed time and time again--I never received a call indicating that these people were harassing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Principal: Could He Have Done More? | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...sounds like a broken brain to me," Hanson joked...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dining Services Slots Midnight Snack for Fall | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Fear: A Broken Femur...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter: What Are Your Health Concerns? | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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