Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With Israel bracing for the inevitable Hamas response, the first casualty, as ever, is the almost moribund peace process. As predictable as the coming cycle of attacks and counter-attacks -- and the consequent breakdown of peace efforts -- may be, no side appears able to rise above the cycle and bring it to a halt. Grounds for optimism are few, says Hamad. "Israelis and Palestinians have by now become accustomed to the fact that they should accept the worst...
...question is how badly these forecasts may be knocked askew by the ongoing Asian economic tempest. Henry Kaufman, one of Wall Street's most respected financial analysts, wryly notes that economists most often "forecast usual events because we all have experience" with them. But the Asian breakdown is far outside that experience. "We've gone over 60 years since we've had this kind of a massive disruption...
...folders. With all this in mind, Connecticut decided after a review last month to continue Maximus' contract and triple the amount it pays per child-care case. Welfare may be one of the few fields in which a system temporarily plagued by unpaid bills, unanswered phones and system breakdown can still constitute an improvement...
...concerned about the breakdown of the black-Latina alliance," Alatorre said. "We will be leaders in the communities...We should get some things on the table, see each others' faces...
...honestly, griping about the Oscars is not only a futile occupation, it's banal and overpracticed. Why waste the time or the print? Instead, accepting the nominees as given, here's my breakdown on who will, could and should walk off with the little Golden...