Word: broking
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...McCain’s runningmate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has opposed federal funding for embryonic stem cell work since before she broke onto the national stage...
...room, zero to sixty in a half-second, like audio-electroshock therapy or the first jolt of Beatlemania. It's a release of energy the Disney marketeers have savvily built up since High School Musical made its debut on the Disney Channel in Jan. 2006. The TV movie broke ratings records, and so did its spinoff CD, which was the year's top-selling album in the U.S. Last year's High School Musical 2, also on the Disney Channel, topped that: the CD was #1 in America and the world. But all this was so much seed-sowing...
...Some argue Bretton Woods and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank it created should have undergone revamping even before the crisis broke. Initially tasked with overseeing currency exchange rates and providing funds and advice to nations suffering trade deficits, the IMF has watched its field of action wane as economies developed and globalized. As part of that evolution, financial trading began spanning borders and generating previously unimaginable transactions through highly-leveraged and complex derivatives - all within a virtually unregulated atmosphere that national governments couldn't manage to police. Sarkozy and his European partners hope that...
...this recession, striking as it does squarely at people's homes. With the financial baggage that many matrimonial vessels are hauling, it's not yet clear whether more spouses will jump ship or start bailing. What is clear is that everybody involved--from the ultra-wealthy to the completely broke, from family-court judges to therapists--has to figure out a new way to navigate...
...long-held secrets. For at least two of his congregants, the effort was transformative. A former prison guard--let's call him Jack--had been unfaithful to his wife and says he was feeling "crushed" by guilt. A few days after Jack posted the site's first confession, he broke down at a church service and admitted the truth to his wife, only to discover that she too had strayed. The act of unveiling the secret online had what Jack calls a snowball effect, easing the way for a meaningful conversation. "The heaviness I had carried was almost physical...