Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Delage had bigger problems, though. "Three weeks before it was due, my computer mysteriously broke into pieces," she said. "I had to use a borrowed computer to finish the thesis, and I had no printer...
...Broaddrick, an Arkansas nursing-home operator, clarified rumors that have been circulating for years. She contends that in 1978 Bill Clinton, who was then the Arkansas attorney general, forced himself on her. At the time, she was a 35-year-old volunteer in his campaign for Governor. She finally broke her silence, she told TIME, "because of all the misinformation" that was being spread about her, not because of Clinton's just-concluded impeachment trial. "I could care less what happens to the man," she says. "I just did this for myself and for my family...
...near disasters, Autissier claims she's never felt in serious danger. In fact, she was sleeping soundly when Soldini's hammer caromed off the hull of her boat. Still, she is well aware that lethal dangers are never far off. In these same southern Pacific waters in 1997, she broke off from another round-the-world race to search for a French-Canadian yachtsman who had been swamped by rough seas. He was never found. "We race boats, but we're not out to flirt with death," says Autissier. "If one of us doesn't come back...
...shared group trauma: in 1995, after two smash records, TLC filed for bankruptcy. Some observers in the music industry viewed the move as a sly legal strategy for the group to negotiate a better contract with its record label, LaFace. But Watkins says the trio was genuinely broke. "We were broke like our lights were off," she says. "Broke like our phone was disconnected. Broke. It came as a shock to y'all. Not to us. We was the ones living it. So I knew the money I wasn't getting...
...raps on the group's albums, has developed a reputation as the wild card of the trio. In 1994 she was fined and put on probation after burning down the million-dollar home of her boyfriend, former Atlanta Falcon Andre Rison. The two later became engaged and then broke...