Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questing, tormented main character is Julia, a successful architect, divorced and, at 41, pregnant for the first time, by a casual lover. Her marriage broke up some years before because she refused to have children, fearing that a streak of brutality might surface in her own nature. Her mother disappeared when she was nine, and after that her charming, beloved father beat her repeatedly, abuse that stopped just short of being openly sexual...
...Bermuda that its problems -- drugs, in particular -- are beyond its control without Britain." Bermudans were also likely concerned that independence might weaken the country economically. The World Bank consistently ranks Bermuda one of the five richest countries in the world. "The voters probably felt that if it isn't broke, so to speak, why fix it?" said Booth...
Negotiations between N.B.A. officials and locked-out players broke off Thursday night, leaving the league without a labor contract and endangering the upcoming season. The impasse came just days after the union imposed an Aug. 8 deadline to reach an agreement; otherwise, the union says it will decertify itself, which would free players to pursue an antitrust suit against the owners in court. Talks reportedly disintegrated over the possible elimination of exceptions to the salary...
Just days after the Croatian army broke the seige ofthe Bihac safe area, Serb forces appear ready to strike back. From Bihac, TIME's Edward Barnes reports that a massive combined force of Krajina and Bosnian Serbs is approaching the town from the south. Croat and Bosnian Muslim army officials expect a major battle for the area within the next few days...
...allows me to nod in agreement, concur that these men should have been captured earlier and that they are wrong. If I saw it on TV, though, I might yell at these slimebags and call for our government to crush them. Thank god for my health that the cable broke...