Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Academy called AIDS "a national health crisis." The coincidence of the reports' conclusions points to an underlying problem: too often government and public alike have sidestepped education and open discussion about sexuality. Clearly contraception is a quick fix rather than a long-term solution for problems like the breakdown of the family and the spread of an incurable disease. But for the moment, a quick fix is just what is needed. We hope the recent reports become more than mere recommendations...
This damage control method is the teflon of our "teflon President." Reagan has played the same game in every major political scrape throughout his Administration. He used it after the breakdown of the Reykjavik summit, after the Libyan disinformation scandal and during the coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Reagan has applied this method to the Iran crisis in an effort to regain his stature. But this time the damage control has failed. The media has so far sustained its onslaught...
Depending on how you look at it, the function of the police is to maintain law and order or to reinforce an existing power structure. Regardless, the use of police is a symptom of a breakdown in the community...
...presses the button down, then holds it, firmly, for two-and-a-half hours. The result is a film as difficult to assess as the Bomb itself, generating shockwaves of a political, moral, historical, and spiritual nature. The Sacrifice almost demands too much of the viewer, pushing him from breakdown to epiphany, via the Inferno, and releasing him on a world still crouching beneath a specter...
...agreement is that the first necessity is to get people into the workplace. Family stability would be vastly greater, says Harriet Michel, president of the New York Urban League, "if black men, women and teenagers could get jobs when they needed them." When asked what would alleviate the breakdown of poor families, Moynihan replies simply, "Jobs." President Reagan defends his policies by arguing that his economic approach has led to the creation of new jobs, which he has called the "greatest social program we have...