Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spring break can be a wonderful thing--a cathartic, relaxing escape from the everyday Harvard experience. And many of those who are tan have had such a spring break, but let the April snow keep falling for those who are Spring Broke...
...build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey, but he needed to build one to the White House first. He tunneled under the U.S. intelligence community, dodged the doorkeepers who were trying to keep him out, shoveled at least $150,000 into Democratic Party coffers and finally broke through into the West Wing, where he joined the President for coffee and a screening of Independence...
...Tamraz story broke Monday morning, guaranteeing another round of charges of lax management and another delay in the hearings. At 4:30 p.m., Lake went to the Oval Office to tell Clinton he wanted to pull his nomination. It was an emotional meeting. Clinton was frustrated and angry. He hugged Lake twice and tried to talk him out of his decision. When Clinton vowed to mount a yearlong fight, Lake politely cut him off. His mind was made up, and he didn't want to debate the President on it. That night Lake released his resignation letter, complaining about...
...does LeBow feel about being the maverick who broke ranks with his peers? "I just feel like we've done the right thing," he says. "I'm not a maverick." He can deny that all he wants. But LeBow is more maverick than James Garner. He shuns glamour, preferring to invest in down-and-out companies. He has teamed up with the likes of Carl Icahn, a consummate outsider. And he doesn't mind an ugly fight...
...quickly we forget. Fifty years after Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, far too many people, both black and white, fail to understand the significance of his achievement. That includes young, hugely paid major league superstars like White Sox first baseman Frank Thomas, who appeared in an ESPN show about Robinson last month. When asked whether he thought much about Robinson, he replied, "Not really...I'm really more about the New Age." It was, as Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon observed, an occasion for sadness and embarrassment for Thomas' ignorance...