Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominated Washington and Moscow, the gathering in Riga dramatized a basic principle of superpower relations: even in the worst of times, the two rivals seek to maintain competitive engagement in diplomacy rather than let their antagonisms get out of control. The reason is simple. In the nuclear age, the breakdown of diplomacy and the resort to war is not an option. Precisely because last week was a tense moment, it was a good week for the U.S. citizens who traveled to Riga...
...Year's Eve. It is his first night as manager of the Charleston Club, which is a laundry for money amassed by a very violent mob. But Mike has other worries: "I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old ( religious maniacs looking for a fight, and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about." The fanatics are warring Irish Catholics and Protestants, a half-century's resentment festering between them. They spike their drinks with faith baiting and engage, Casablanca...
...world's political lexicons. Social Democratic leaders across Western Europe are increasingly pro-business. Says Herbert Giersch, director of the Institute of World Economics at the University of Kiel, West Germany: "The European Commission, even under a socialist president, is pushing toward a decontrol of the capital market, a breakdown of the airline cartel and reform of agriculture policy...
...that the traditional Republican principle of getting government off the back of its people has been subverted by the evangelical right, seemingly intent on transforming Big Brother into a bedroom busybody. Conservatives and many mainstream Americans, on the other hand, view the trend as a welcome response to the breakdown of sexual and family values. The reassertion of traditional moral values, they say, is part of a broad conservative realignment in the political process...
Lead to a breakdown of social morals...