Word: brokenness
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...costing the latter $5.4 million. The Vietnamese bank is demanding that ABN AMRO repay the losses?even though they were incurred by an Incombank employee. ABN AMRO says it has done nothing wrong. Incombank won't comment, and Vietnamese authorities haven't said exactly which banking regulations have been broken. But what has sent a chill through the foreign investment community is that local Hanoi police?not state banking regulators?are running the investigation. "The rule of law is manipulated in Vietnam to serve interests rather than as an objective force," Thayer says. If foreign companies can't be confident...
...hangings, sending a condemned man plummeting 15 ft. through the trap door onto the hard concrete floor below. Miraculously, he survived. "Allah saved me!" he shouted. "Allah saved me!" For 40 minutes, prison guards, officials and witnesses engaged in heated arguments over whether or not to interpret the broken rope as divine intervention...
Ground will be broken this week on the $100 million Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the first monument on the National Mall in Washington to honor an African American...
Dawson's electrifying run gave him 4,718 yards for his career. The achievement was met with little fanfare at Penn's Franklin Field, as Penn's public address announcer gave no indication that the record had been broken until halftime. The game's broadcasters on CN8, a sports cable network, did recognize the achievement...
...this Saturday at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.But, in 1996, the 58 yards that former Cornell running back Chad Levitt needed to eclipse the all-time mark—an arm’s length over the course of a career—remained, and rather than a broken record, his season and career ended with a broken right arm.The record, 4,715 yards, was set by Cornell’s Ed Marinaro in 1971, and with just 53 more yards, Dawson will add it to his ever-growing list of achievements. If there’s a rushing record...