Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morrison related her experiences in learning to use her voice more assertively, describing situations in which calm dialogue broke down and she was forced to yell to gain a suspect's cooperation...
Feaster was voted Tournament MVP--as if there even needed to be a vote--with combined totals of 69 points and 26 rebounds in two games. Last week when she averaged 29 points and 12.5 rebounds and broke the Harvard career scoring record, the Ivy League inexplicably chose not to name her its Player of the Week; if she does not receive that honor this week, the League should seriously reconsider its system for distributing weekly awards...
Feaster was presented with two sets of flowers before Harvard's opening game Saturday to honor her setting the team's all-time scoring mark. The first was from her parents, and the other was from Tammy Butler '95, whose record Feaster broke...
...Civil War, Wilmington was a station on the Underground Railroad; today about 5% of its population is black. But its Quaker tradition of tolerance is being tested by uglier habits of mind, because the town has been buffeted by a series of racial incidents. In 1992 a bloody fight broke out between black and white students at an off-campus Wilmington College party. In 1993 and 1995 the Ku Klux Klan staged rallies at the courthouse; though fewer than 50 sympathizers showed up each time, black leaders were understandably concerned--and their fears were heightened last year when the Aryan...
...else. That is because they already have--through various accidents of history and politics--a big head start. The collapse of East Germany in 1990 forced many inefficient, pollution-belching factories and power plants out of business, cutting Europe's emissions as a side benefit. Similarly, when Margaret Thatcher broke the British coal miners' unions in 1985, Britain was able to switch to cleaner-burning natural gas. France, for its part, never had much coal and is heavily reliant on nuclear power today. With relatively powerful Green parties and citizenries that tend to care about these things...