Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to prevail in court, a plaintiff needs to show that the marriage was perking along quite contentedly until a wanton intruder came along to wreck it. The complaint charges that Dorothy enjoyed the "love, society, companionship, support, affection, right of consortium and kindly offices" of Joseph until Cox "intentionally, wrongfully and unjustifiably and with malice alienated and destroyed a love and affection that previously existed...
...civil war all but destroyed Cambodia's frail, poorly funded cultural infrastructure; French-trained Khmer curators were murdered; the National Museum was reduced to a bat-infested wreck, its roof caving in, and abandoned for four years after 1975. (It has since been partially repaired by the Australian government, but, as one of the contributors to the show's excellent catalog bluntly observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around...
...seems that here, there can be either peace or quiet, but not both," notes TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "As long as the peace train is stuck, the Islamists lie low, their task of sabotaging the process a redundancy. Once things move, here they come again, determined to wreck it once again." Beyer notes that while the Israelis are blaming Yasser Arafat for not controlling terrorism, Hamas is independent of the Palestinian leader: "The last time there was a suicide bombing, it turned out that the bombers came from an area of the West Bank controlled by the Israelis...
...when Hogan's car collided head-on with a bus. Hogan shattered both his legs, and nearly died from blood clots. Less than a year later, though, he was back on tour. He never played in more than seven tournaments in a single season after the wreck, yet he won 13 more, including six of the first nine majors he played after the accident. On the course, Hogan did not laugh. He did not joke. He did not smile. In his trademark white hat, Hogan walked deliberately from shot to shot, chain-smoking. And he hit the ball, cleanly, precisely...
Hospital care in Bedford, Ind., is an odd case of capitalism in action--maybe even hyperaction. Should you get into a car wreck on Highway 50 as it passes through town, two local hospitals can send ambulances to compete for your business. If you are sufficiently alert, you can choose between Dunn Memorial Hospital and Bedford Regional Medical Center. To avoid unseemly tugs of war, the city requires that the hospitals alternate pickups of victims not well enough to state a preference. And the police are on hand to sort things out. "They'll back off when...