Word: breakdown
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...aging. In his 24 years in the Senate, Glenn has distinguished himself as a champion of the elderly and something of a lay scholar on the biology of senescence. It has not escaped his notice that some of the changes the body goes through as it ages--the breakdown of bones and the immune system, for example--are identical to the ones it goes through in zero-G. What better way to study both phenomenons than to send a senior citizen into space...
...Sarpolus, the head researcher for the Michigan study of driving behavior, was struck by the gender breakdown of aggressive drivers: 53% of them are women. "There is a tremendous cultural shift taking place," he says. "Men still outnumber women in pure numbers, but women are not only increasing, they are not falling off as they get older. Women have fought to be equal in the workplace and in society, and now they're fighting to be equal behind the wheel. [Our] data are full of soccer moms...
...That was a bit of a breakdown for us", Tomassoni said. "We went for the puck and we were a little lax and they got a nice bounce that went their way. [Gernander] was way off to the weak side and in most cases--nine times out of 10--the puck doesn't go to him. Unfortunately this time...
...thought the breakdown was in the first ten minutes of the second half," Delaney-Smith said. "I don't like how we responded to that pressure. That's going to be how every Ivy League is going to play us, so we have to do a much better...
...real breakdown [in that period] and it goes in our net," Tomassoni said. "It was a big breakdown and we just didn't recover from that. I think that third goal was the difference in the game...