Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authors certain that an America devoid of racism--and of affirmative action--would match their dream. "The fabric of society is very complicated," allows Abigail. Why, for example, did so many negative forces--high crime, low test scores, family breakdown, joblessness, poverty--worsen for black communities in the years after 1970? The book suggests it was ugly black rhetoric, ensuing white anger and the failures of affirmative action that accelerated pathologies in black communities--not the rise of drug use, or turmoil over the Vietnam War, or changing sexual mores, or a general cynicism about authority, which affected society...
...blame to Russia's sickly economy, which, he insisted, has not allowed the space agency to maintain the station. "Factories do not operate, and parts have not been delivered," he said. At week's end Tsibliyev was at least partly vindicated when Russian space officials admitted the computer breakdown was caused by an aging component that had not been replaced...
...start allowing them again, says Professor Dan Subotnik of Touro Law Center in New York. As for Dorothy's sweet revenge, the new Mrs. Hutelmyer claims to feel no rancor. "I feel sorry for her," she says. "Until she can acknowledge that she shares in the responsibility of the breakdown of that marriage, she can never get on with her life...
...multinational companies are shutting factories in Phnom Penh amid fears of power blackouts, looting and a breakdown of civil authority. Neither foreign investors nor the Cambodian people have much faith that Toan Chay--or anyone else--can keep the nation from being engulfed by tragedy once again...
...past several months, the creaking Mir, built to last just five years but now in its 11th, has been beset by problems, including a loss of oxygen, a breakdown in its cooling system and even an onboard fire. But last week's accident was clearly the worst...