Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discussions between Britain and China were deadlocked last October, principally because Peking demanded that Britain recognize the Chinese claim of sovereignty over Hong Kong before talks could proceed. After that breakdown, the colony's economic indicators plummeted to historic lows. The news that Britain and China would resume their talks has produced a recovery. By last week shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange reached a nine-month high, and the slumping Hong Kong dollar had improved. Even so, many of the ethnic Chinese businessmen who dominate the colony's economy were still debating whether to invest...
...ought to be, having spent three years mastering the finicky Canadian-built contraption. In long sessions with the builders, she even helped work out corrective procedures in case of a breakdown. One reason Ride won a seat on the flight is that she and another crewmate, Mission Specialist John Fabian, 44, are NASA's premier operators of the arm. Says Abbey: "She and Fabian are probably equally good...
Protesters have also charged that the demographic breakdown of the think tank is unsuited to the broad educational goals of Stanford as a university...
...Budget Committee can come up with a new plan this week for a budget resolution acceptable to the House and Senate. The congressional budget process, which was instituted in 1974, requires that members pass such a resolution, putting spending ceilings on government programs and setting overall tax levels. A breakdown of this system could lead to uncontrolled spending, with each appropriations subcommittee voting to spend whatever it wanted. Democratic Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida said that if the budget process breaks down, "I think that we shall have chaos...
...responsible for the explosion under the hood of Beeler's car. Another important fact is that there is no full-dress feud in The Feud. Beeler and Bullard are soon out of the picture, one with a fatal heart attack and the other with a nervous breakdown. But these misfortunes set in motion a series of coincidences and events...