Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edith Etter, a University Hall secretary yesterday confirmed that one of the central administration office lines was disconnected, but she blamed it on a routine breakdown...
...many Americans that U.S. contributions to the fund will be used to protect American banks from losses on loans to such overextended nations as Brazil and Mexico. The Reagan Administration is now caught between pleasing a skeptical Congress and avoiding the multinational financial catastrophe that could result from a breakdown of the fund. The main losers in all this, the IMF delegates generally agreed, will be the world's developing nations...
...Justice Department have not been able to fully carry out the disciplinary aspects of the registration law, proposed by Jimmy Carter in January 1980 after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In fact, the government has fallen miles short of Turnage's stated goal, largely because of a breakdown in coordination between the Selective Service--which gathers potential registrants--and the Justice Department--which is charged with prosecuting evaders. That disorganization by itself would not be very encouraging as an indicator of how federal agencies enforce federal laws. But the more serious fault lies in officials denials of the confusion...
...change is reflected in Daniel's contrast with his sister. Susan (Amanda Plummer), who inherits her parents political faith, actively parties panting in the anti-war movement while Daniel is a politically apathetic graduate student. The intensity of Susan's involvement in politics eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown, which motivates Daniel to explore his parents case in search of some judgement of them to help him understand both Susan and himself...
...some compelling particulars. In early 1982, he says, Andropov ordered the KGB to arrest two close friends of Brezhnev's daughter Galina for diamond smuggling. News of the arrests was leaked to the Western press, and Galina was dispatched to the Kremlin hospital, supposedly because of a "nervous breakdown." According to the author, Brezhnev's doubly distraught daughter attended her father's funeral in the company of two well-dressed secret policemen, who appeared to be members of the family. The funeral was televised live, Medvedev explains, and the KGB was afraid that Galina might cause...