Word: brokenness
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...paralysis—succeed in obtaining disability benefits. But surely the retirees can pay medical expenses with the money they made as players right? Unfortunately, no. The violent nature of football often renders athletes incapable of providing for their families. At career’s end their bodies are broken and multiple concussions have numbed their brains to the point where they cannot remember the hits that placed them in such miserable condition. Hospital and prescription bills suck up the money quickly, especially in the case of players from the 1970’s and 1980’s, whose...
EDWARDS: "Senator Clinton says that she believes she can be the candidate for change, but she defends a broken system that's corrupt in Washington...
...conference touting its achievements and the comeback campaign came undone. Finally, of course, there are Americans as a whole, a stubbornly homesteading people who never seem to tire of building in the paths of fires, hurricanes and coastal floods. There is little to suggest that the California blazes have broken us of that obstinate habit. But there is much to suggest that when the crises do hit, we'll at least be ready to help one another...
...aunt, sits on the porch of her small house in the sweltering heat in Sabaneta, the Barinas town where Hugo Chavez was born. When Hugo was a child, she says, he told other children that he would become President, and when he did he would fix a broken water fountain in front of their school. Others, like childhood friend and neighbor Flor Figueredo, don't recall Chavez showing much political ambition back then. Except once. "He made a comment that with there being so much oil in Venezuela, look at how the streets were," she recalls...
...place Paul hasn't become a major player is where it counts: in the polls, where he hasn't broken above 5% and has yet to pass Mike Huckabee. Paul realizes he's not a favorite among the pro-war, pro-Bush Republicans. "A lot of times at my rally, I say, 'We're diverse. We even have some Republicans,'" he jokes. (His largest Meetup.com group gathers in liberal Austin, Texas; another sizable one is in San Francisco.) And he isn't sure where all this sudden support will lead...