Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakdown of marriage that the social inequality of wives is most visible," Okin said...
Beatrice (Carolyn Duffy), a divorcee and widow, considers her life a failure. Her marriage was a disaster, her career is nonexistent (she earns a measly $50 a week caring for unbearable invalids), her hopes for the future are dim, and her children, well, one is recovering from a mental breakdown and the other is busy experimenting with radioactive seeds...
...requisite Shepard themes: the lack of communication between people, the fallibility of memory, the breakdown of the traditional American family, the insatiable restlessness and violence of the American way of life, and the souring of the American myth of rugged individualism, as personified in the hollow denizens of the West...
...there were a nuclear catastrophe, cars parked in the breakdown lanes of the main routes out of Hampton Beach would slow traffic and could result in blocked roads, DeMarco said...
...ozone hole did not necessarily mean CFCs were to blame, and a number of alternative explanations were proposed. Among them, says Dan Albritton, director of the Federal Government's Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, was the notion that the "hole did not signify an ozone loss at all, just a breakdown in the distribution system." An interruption in the movement of air from the tropics, where most ozone is created, to the poles could easily result in less ozone reaching the Antarctic. Another theory: perhaps the sunspot activity that peaked around 1980 created more ozone- destroying nitrogen radicals than usual, which...