Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After perceiving the entire universe in a small stone, Matteo suffers something of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a cure, he fetches up at an ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, run by an elderly woman known to her devotees as the Mother. "We know the Divine Force is everywhere," she tells the faithful. "Bliss! Bliss now, bliss here, forever bliss." This is what Matteo has been waiting to hear. Sophie, now pregnant, is skeptical, but she moves in and bears the first of her two children...
...There hasn't been any evidence there was a breakdown [in the system]," he said, adding that the College's review of the matter did "not suggest anything in particular that would have been done differently...
...disabled. Breslin and Martinez not only live daily with such obstacles, they evaluate them as well. Breslin helped establish the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, while Martinez has traveled worldwide as a consultant on blindness (and she water-skis when she gets the chance). Despite Breslin's wheelchair breakdown, a day with them on the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area shows that commonplace life has improved dramatically for them since the advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Several years ago, for example, Breslin stopped at a drugstore near her home in Berkeley. The tight turnstiles...
...buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts, as of a breakdown that could torpedo the schedule and drive costs up. That could prove fatal to a program many U.S. critics consider a scientific dead end and a huge waste of money...
...petulant but unrepentant Jeff Tarango was hit with the highest fine in Wimbledon tournament history -- $15,500 -- for his outburst on Saturday. The breakdown: $10,000 forverbally abusing an umpire, $5,000 for defaulting the tennis match, and $500 for telling spectators to "shut up." The fine broke the previous record of $10,000 levied against John McEnroe for verbally abusing a line judge. Despite earning $29,984 in his best ever performance in a Grand Slam event, fines and taxes left Tarango with only $2,961 for the tournament. The good news: Tarango's wife was not penalized...