Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire, which broke out in late February, was not the station's finest hour--but it wasn't its worst, either. Lately, the 11-year-old ship has been falling apart at an alarming rate, and the cash-poor Russians have been unable to do much about it. In March, its oxygen system failed; soon after, its gyroscopes quit; and three weeks ago, an ongoing coolant leak caused temperatures to rise to an oven-like 88[degrees...
Backs coach Mary Dixey ignited this confidence last Wednesday, the day before Radcliffe left for Nationals. Dixey brought 33 wooden boards, all an inch thick, to practice, and every team member broke through...
...Liggett Group, smallest of the U.S.'s Big Five cigarette makers, broke ranks in March and conceded not only that tobacco is addictive but also that the company has known it all along. While RJR Nabisco and the others continue to battle in the courts--insisting that smokers are not hooked, just exercising free choice--their denials ring increasingly hollow in the face of the growing weight of evidence. Over the past year, several scientific groups have made the case that in dopamine-rich areas of the brain, nicotine behaves remarkably like cocaine. And late last week a federal judge...
...feedings and toilet training in their seventh decade. There aren't going to be many such mothers, but if medicine can help make it so, why not greet them with the same joy accorded Tony Randall, who appeared on David Letterman the same day news about the California mother broke. He had just had his first child at 77, without any fear that a doctor could tell...
...Good Friday, ingesting pills and alcohol at a cottage on the farm he and Erdrich used to share in Cornish, New Hampshire. At that moment, his friend Foster called. During the conversation, Dorris said he had "activated the kit," and he then passed out. Foster alerted state police, who broke in and saved Dorris' life. After that, the author checked into a psychiatric facility. For a brief while, his friend Coughlin, who spoke to him many times a day, felt hopeful that Dorris was on the mend. He even talked excitedly about a new children's book he had started...