Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like it, get out of here!" He: "For 23 years you've stripped the manhood right off of me, and I needed you." She: "Wanted, not needed!" Whereupon a "human relations specialist" instantly pops up before the cameras to analyze the situation as "a breakdown in communication and too much dependence on romance...
...from a complete answer to his party's problems, and it is hard to believe that such an experienced politician could be so superficial in his analysis. For, in addition to its perennial power struggles, the weakness of the Democratic party under Doherty may be traced to a breakdown in performance, a dearth of exciting candidates, and the unwillingness of Senator Kennedy to provide the leadership that is so desperately needed...
...plays the role of constitutional monarchy with emergency power. In the past nine months, seven African nations have been taken over by the military. "It is these men," says Gabriel Almond, president of the American Political Science Association, "who are initially most appalled at the signs of corruption and breakdown." New-nation armies by and large are not only the most honest, disciplined and organized elite in their countries but, paradoxically, the most democratic force around...
...possible for a nation of 700 million people to have a nervous breakdown, Communist China is perilously close to the breaking point. Its craving for victory in Viet Nam, where it has staked its revolutionary reputation on the success of "the war of national liberation," has been frustrated by the stepped-up American commitment. Traditionally paranoid about foreigners, China has become more isolated and sealed off than any other Communist state (including Stalin's Russia). Led by aging, ethnocentric men with little personal knowledge of the world beyond, it feels encircled and threatened on every side. When it directs...
...only publicly held corporations but privately owned firms that are not now required to account for themselves at all. Among the many new figures that British firms would have to report, in addition to profits, are sales (37 of the 100 biggest companies have never done so), a breakdown of sales by product line and subsidiaries, the amount and value of shares outstanding and in reserve, and the earnings of company chairmen. The last requirement promises to end a favorite British guessing game...