Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the police came, I was ready for a nervous breakdown. We learned that the housekeeper had been called by the alarm company when the alarm went off. Mad that I was staying in the house, she had decided to scare me. Explanations or no explanations, this was the last straw; the police had to stay an extra hour to calm me and my friend down...
Fervent believers of many faiths, and less devout citizens appalled by what they see as a national breakdown of moral standards, have never reconciled themselves to those decisions. Their anger has been steadily fanned by a series of lower-court interpretations that have gone so far as to bar voluntary prayer sessions on school property organized by students outside of class hours. Critics fear the courts are attempting to forbid any public acknowledgment of God whatsoever in the schools and thus, in effect, to enthrone indifference or even hostility toward religion as official government policy. They can even cite...
Viet Nam, Watergate, the uncertainties of the nuclear age, the breakdown of families and neighborhoods have all spurred heightened concern with morality. Both Democrats and Republicans claim to see the light. While a Mondale can reasonably call on Government to take some from the wealthy and give it to the poor, a Reagan can logically cry for individual responsibility and community standards of decency...
Shattuck, legislative director of the American can Civil Liberties Union, (ACLU), testified that "the available evidence is that Mr. Meese has been centrally involved in directing or approving many of the civil rights action taken by the Justice Department" that have led to a breakdown in the enforcement of laws preventing school, employment and housing discrimination...
Entire Nous, like Kury's first film Peppermint Soda, is distinctly autobiographical. Peppermint Soda was a lovely, sensitive portrayal of her childhood in France. Entre Nous describes the breakdown of her parent's marriage, and the second woman who, in a sense, took her father's place...