Word: broking
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...sprinkle of islands 8,000 miles from home. Only a few months before the Argentines took the Falkland Islands in April of last year, the Prime Minister's approval rating in the polls stood at 25%, the lowest of any British leader since World War II. Once war broke out, her unflinching determination to bring victory back from the South Atlantic stamped Thatcher permanently in the public mind as the bold, decisive leader she had always wanted...
...created the movies' image of the tough broad, surviving and thriving in the Depression through a wily, earthy cynicism. Stanwyck was sensational in grimy melodramas, from Illicit and Night Nurse to the immoral, immortal Baby Face. But she didn't get an Oscar nomination until 1938, when she broke from her normal screen character to play the nobly sacrificing mother in Stella Dallas. Seven years later, when she was a finalist as the rotten femme fatale of Double Indemnity, she lost to Ingrid Bergman, whose husband is trying to kill her in Gaslight. Oscar chose the wanly victimized wife over...
...particular sequence, Terriers forward Holly Lorms broke out for a fast break and found herself one-on-one with Kessler. Lorms lifted a hard shot high over Kessler’s shoulder. The puck seemed destined for the back of the net, but Kessler flashed leather through the air and in an instant the puck was in the webbing of Kessler’s glove...
...average of about $32,000. That's what Karie Gladis, 29, earned as a new teacher in Miami. She scrimped for 31⁄2 years and then left for a job in educational publishing. "It was stressful living from paycheck to paycheck," she says. "If my car broke down or if I needed dental work, there was just no wiggle room...
...guarded only until the early evening. At night, a security camera was in place to keep out intruders, although homeless people have often huddled in around the structure. But the gate didn't have smoke detectors, or a sprinkler system to combat a fire in the event that one broke...