Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goals came in the third period, the third of which, coming from Tournament MVP Bill Pierce on a breakaway with 8:24 remaining, broke...
...Madrid. "It looks like ETA is opening up all its channels for killing," said Interior Minister Belloch. Politicians have been warning against a new round of violence for months, TIME's Jane Walker reports. "Spain's major democratic parties had a united front on how to fight terrorism. It broke when the Basque Nationalists began pushing for talks with ETA." The separatists are holding two kidnap victims as bargaining chips to pressure authorities into allowing sentenced Basques to serve their terms near their home towns...
...take if you've already found a market. In the weeks preceding the Democratic National Convention, for instance, Stim's political commentator was forbidden to read or listen to press accounts of the presidential race; he had to write his stuff cold. Then when the Dick Morris scandal broke, Halpin immediately dispatched the writer to find and interview a prostitute. "We wondered if maybe hookers were untapped sources of political gossip," says Halpin. For the "security issue," one of Stim's contributors wanted to put on a bulletproof Kevlar vest and let a friend shoot him in the chest...
Karl, a poignant, complicated character, came to Thornton on the set of a cable movie, 1987's The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains. "It was hot," he says, "and I had a conductor's uniform on with a collar up to here. My part wasn't going well because the director wanted me to overact. At lunch I was thinking how everyone else on the set was a real actor and I was a nobody. I started making faces at myself in the mirror and started talking in that voice. I looked so goofy, I just went, Eeeewegh. Then...
...nicotine patch are placing odds on whether your first tobacco-free 24 hours will really last forever. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center studied 200 smokers who buttressed their "quit day" by starting on a nicotine patch program. Those who broke down and cheated that first day were "10 times more likely to be smoking" in the long run, said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Westman of Durham, N.C. "This finding contradicts the common idea that people can cheat, even just a little, and still quit smoking." So where was the supposed...