Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bond market to soften during an economic downturn. But they have been taken aback that defaults are rising and junk- bond prices are plunging during a time of relatively stable growth. The implication is that any serious industrial slump could give the junk-bond market a full-fledged nervous breakdown...
...intellectual who counts Samuel Beckett as his favorite writer, Ingersoll nonetheless publishes papers that condescend; they entertain more than educate or inform. He blasts other newspapers for giving reporters free reign to pursue investigative and analytic stories he considers of limited interest. Says Ingersoll: "There has been a general breakdown of discipline in American newsrooms in the past generation. It got to the point by the early '80s where you couldn't get the best young reporters to aspire to be editors anymore...
...Zealand suffered from the breakdown of ANZUS...
...that the captain was often drunk on duty. Amero, who worked under Hazelwood as second mate from 1980 through 1982, is suing Exxon for $2 million in damages in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Charging that Hazelwood's "abuse and harassment" caused him to suffer a nervous breakdown, Amero has testified that a bad joke had been making the rounds in the Exxon fleet: "Where Joe Hazelwood is captain, Jack Daniel's is the chief mate...
Parents know all too vividly the effects of the stress they endure in order to keep up with their lives. Addiction to a speeded-up schedule can lead to a physical breakdown from hypertension, ulcers, heart disease, or dependence on alcohol, cocaine and cigarettes. The effect on the psyche is subtler and more insidious. People find themselves growing impatient and restless, and it seems harder to think logically about a problem. Even if two hours miraculously open up one evening, they may be spent watching TV, since people are too tired to do much else...