Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting to the point that middle class families in this country are going broke sending their kids to college," Dukakis said...
With the chippy Axemen down a player due to unsportsmanlike conduct, Konik broke down the right side. He threaded a beautiful lead pass to a streaking Nielsen, who guided the puck past a helpless Scott to give Harvard a 3-2 lead...
Minerva Bernardino, the Dominican Republic's delegate and later the first female U.N. ambassador, recalls the sense of high mission. Bernardino, now 88, broke her ankle at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel the night before she was to address the conclave. "They told me I needed a cast to my knee. I said no. They said I would lose my foot. I said, 'I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June...
Employees at aircraft giant Boeing are hoping for their own breakthrough. More than 32,000 members of the machinists union walked off jobs in Kansas, Oregon and Washington State on Oct. 6 after talks on a new contract broke down. Among the flash points was Boeing's growing practice of shifting skilled assembly-line work from U.S. plants to China in order to boost sales to that country. Says George Kourpias, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: "I'm running the Boeing strike, and there's an excitement in the rank and file I haven...
...Maddux is one of the smaller Braves, and with his eyeglasses on, he's the last guy in the team picture you would peg for being the best pitcher in, oh, the past 75 years. "You should have seen him when he first broke in," says Braves outfielder Dwight Smith, who did indeed debut with Maddux in 1984, when the Chicago Cubs sent the two draftees to Pikeville, Kentucky. "He was an itty-bitty, skinny 150 pounder soaking wet, and you didn't think he would make it through the season, much less make the majors...