Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit, the first for an Ecuadoran head of state, is seen as essential to establishing a lasting peace. Fujimori's return to public life is intended to show his government easily handling the hostage situation. So far, the Peruvian media seems to agree with him. Television stations no longer interrupt afternoon soap operas for live broadcasts of garbage pickups and food deliveries at the residence. But the President's public return has so far changed nothing at the home of Japan's ambassador to Peru, where rebels still hold 74 hostages...
Peter Jennings, the ABC anchor, found it necessary to interrupt Brinkley: "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley." To which Brinkley rightly responded, "Well, I'm not on the air." He's not, anymore, and he is finally liberated to inject some reality into TV-land, which otherwise throws up as a knee-jerk reaction those democratic platitudes we have all had to tolerate since news became corporate domain. Journalism as honesty? Journalism as the relation of reality? Journalism as acerbic sarcasm? Nyet. "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley...
...famous view from Waterloo to St. Paul's Cathedral would be fatal. Iraqi-born English architect Zaha Hadid's plan, which shared first prize with French designer Antoine Grumbach's, is all cantilevered glass and steel with the bulkiest parts of the structure at either end so as to interrupt the view as little as possible. Grumbach devised an open-air suspension bridge with a greenhouse at one end and a 500-ft. residential glass tower with hanging gardens at the other. Other proposals included a zig-zag span with a ribbon-like tower that twists 800 ft. into...
...knows how pregnancy produces that benefit." One possible explanation: The number of cells in the breast increase dramatically early in the pregnancy, and they are especially vulnerable to malignancy. These cells are helped to mature later in the gestation when the body releases protective hormones. An abortion would interrupt the production of these protective hormones. Terence Nelan
...contrast to the rain and snow that often interrupt New England tournaments, the Crimson was treated to sunny days...