Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, I was not alone. Dozens of Muslims like me on campus tested their faith and their willpower by fasting every day. But even at the sunset dinners, when I broke my fast surrounded by my Muslim sisters and brothers, I felt isolated. I'd walk in by myself at 4:45 or 4:50, just in time to hear the evening prayers. And I'd walk out alone at 5:30, maybe a little more energized to study (having just eaten), but most of all longing to call home--and picturing my family's dinner table. I thought this...
...national attention on the NRC's failure to enforce its safety rules at Northeast's Millstone Station in Waterford, Connecticut. Then something extraordinary happened. Where past agency chiefs had routinely ignored such criticism, NRC chairman Shirley Ann Jackson, who had taken the job just 10 months before this scandal broke, called the TIME story "a wake-up call" and "a learning moment." Revving up its inspection program at Millstone, her agency found such pervasive noncompliance that it ordered all three plants there to shut down for sweeping repairs. A year later, Northeast is facing $1 billion in shutdown costs...
...rate slashing, which could begin in New England next year, utilities have been laying off workers and trimming maintenance costs. But Northeast's troubles illustrate the long-term price of such short-term savings: after reporting a $76.4 million loss for the fourth quarter of 1996, the utility barely broke even for the year, reporting net income of $1.8 million, down from $282.4 million in 1995. With Northeast stock trading at about $12 a share--half its 1995 level--company chairman Bernard Fox has decided to retire. Kenyon, who was forced to negotiate a $314 million line of credit...
...Crimson also broke the record for most consecutive Ivy League victories. The new streak currently stands at 26 and counting...
Kelvin Cato scored a career-high 29 points, had 12 rebounds and broke a Midwest Regional record with eight blocks, leading Iowa State. Dedric Willoughby added 21 points for the sixth-seeded Cyclones...