Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credit to help pay for long-term care ("a proposal that the President and I unveiled together earlier this year"). She tried to inoculate herself against charges of being too liberal by saying she urged Clinton to sign the welfare-reform bill of 1996 ("The system was so broken...we had to clear the decks"). And she stepped away from him on several New York issues--beginning the move from First Lady to candidate in a place where the politics are famously loud and cartoonish...
These books and others that feature stark themes, complex plot lines and ambiguous resolutions are edging out the happy endings and conventional morals of the old-style teen "problem" novels, which would obsess over something like a divorce, or an accidental pregnancy, for 120 pages. "The formula has been broken," says Eliza Dresang, author of Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital...
...bother with televising fees, and also take home the profits from concessions, apparel and the like. Indeed, five competitions in skateboarding, BMX biking, aggressive in-line skating and street luging later, scores of medals have been awarded, thousands of fans have been satisfied, hundreds of bones have been broken and millions of dollars have been made...
...parties now have until October to review their positions, but although the peace plan has broken down, it?s unlikely that war will resume. The loyalist marching season - always a flash point for communal violence - is over, and the fact of continued talks will likely restrain the major paramilitary organizations from breaching their cease-fire commitments. Low-key talks are to continue throughout the summer, and Britain still hopes to persuade the paramilitary groups to stick to the plan to negotiate a timetable for decommissioning weapons with Canadian mediator General John de Chastelain. Last Easter, Mitchell appeared to achieve...
...also noticed several sawed-open skeletons, broken scientific glassware and test tubes strewn among the remains...