Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...docket has nearly quadrupled, from 1,463 to 5,311, by Burger's count, and the total of signed court opinions has jumped from 65 to 141. Warned Burger: "It is perhaps the most important single, immediate problem facing the Judicial Branch." Only fundamental changes will "avoid a breakdown of the system-or of some of the Justices...
...three-piece band, Keraga is reserved, reading several of his first Race deadpan from a script that WOMAN gives him. Keraga gets a chance to display his ability, oddly enough, in a scene in which MAN cannot express himself. He deftly executes the complicated task of communicating a communications breakdown. Keraga's rather emotionless stutterings raise the unsettling possibility that MAN does not care whether he is being understood...
...basis, normally bustle with buying and selling. Last week, however, they seemed almost paralyzed by uncertainty. Only a fortnight ago, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had failed to reach agreement on a plan to prop up oil prices by curbing production. That dramatic breakdown induced a kind of suspended animation. The cost of crude seemed sure to fall, but no one could be certain how far or how fast. While a few oil producers made their opening moves last week, others held back to see what their competitors would...
...support himself and his wife, and to pay off the debts of his brother Cecil, who died young, Chesterton contracted for more newspaper and magazine assignments than he could decently fulfill. But even a breakdown at age 40 could not slow him. In self-defense he lauded the ephemeral: "The daily paper is more important [than books] because citizenship must be more important than art, Dale praises this attitude; after all, "Wells, Shaw, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy-all saw themselves involved with and influencing events." But those men attempted, with whatever ludicrous results, to reach far into the future. Chesterton...
Whether the Administration's proposals and policies are somehow heading toward an agreement with the Soviets or whether they have pointed the US toward a major crisis within the Western alliance and a breakdown of superpower arms-control negotiations, is the question of the hour and perhaps the question of the year...