Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish we had a stronger sense of the teaching and shepherding authority of the church, whereas Catholics are loosening up on that. There's a kind of passing each other in opposing directions." He adds, "Many of us on the Protestant side of things worry a little about the breakdown of authority in the Catholic Church. We simply don't want to see them make all the mistakes we've made...
...Racial Breakdown of HMS Class...
...steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace on the floor so that no one could push in the door. Burglaries were common. Drug use was on the rise. Yet crime and violence in those days did not begin to suggest the social breakdown depicted in Fort Apache. That was yet to come...
Whatever the profit breakdown, Murphy said Barnes and Noble will acquire management of a $50 million dollar business with high prestige...
Jamison had her first psychotic breakdown just months after receiving her Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA. Found to have manic depression, she was put on lithium, now a standard therapy for the condition. She responded well to the medication, but like so many other patients--and despite all her training--she stopped taking it as soon as she began to feel better. Her resistance was part denial, part side effects (the high doses used in the early '70s blurred her vision). But the core of her defiance, Jamison makes clear, was that she was addicted to the highs...