Word: brokenness
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...Brenda L. Buttner’s desk at Fox News sits a broken motorcycle brake handle—a memento of a crash she suffered as a beginner rider—holding down her notes and scripts, which Buttner, a graduate of the class of 1983, keeps as a warning to herself of how easy it is to fall...
...TIME: Let's start with the genesis of ROWE. When you were tasked with finding new workplace solutions at Best Buy, the company was already an industry leader and a sought-after employer. What made you think things were broken - so broken, in fact, that only a radical solution could mend...
...moon and back. In Bush's first term, he announced plans for a new type of coal-fired power plant that captures its carbon dioxide exhaust and pumps it safely underground, where it cannot affect the climate. Yet not only will he leave the White House without having broken ground on a zero-emissions power plant, but his Administration once again put off the initiative in January. Why? Persistent failure to think through the project...
Matilda sat in the hall near X-ray holding up a wrinkled little hand. Tiny and looking every one of her 88 years, the woman, despite her broken English, was still with it. She had taken three buses and walked six blocks to get to my office - all by herself. I bent over to take a look at her hand, which Mattie described as "locking and hurting and sleeping all the time." She had simultaneous and rather bad cases of two hand-surgery classics - carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger, a tendon-related condition that causes fingers to catch...
Telekom's chief executive, René Obermann, who took over after the events allegedly took place, told reporters that in the summer of 2007, the company became aware of a single case involving improper use of phone records. Assuming no laws had been broken, Telekom handled it as an internal matter. Then in April of this year, far-reaching evidence emerged of a broader, organized plot to spy on members of the supervisory board, including Lothar Schröder, a senior official of the Verdi service workers union; Wilhelm Wegner, the head of Telekom's works council; and possibly Thomas...