Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this past winter there came a defining moment in the fight over the true cause of America's moral breakdown. It was the day police in Chicago arrived at a small apartment, opened the door and faced 19 children living in a squalor so wretched that one child pleaded to a female officer, "Will you be my mommy? I want to go home with...
Conservative activists are unmoved by images of Dickensian poorhouses, given the breakdown in families and the caseloads drowning the foster-care system. "Nothing could be worse than the current system," argues Robert Rector, a senior policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. "The current system has already pulled the family apart. The system treats having a child out of wedlock as a favored life-style that's deliberately subsidized by the government. Nothing could be more harmful than that." True enough, but Clinton's point man Reed disagrees with the orphanage solution. "It's the kind of goofy social engineering that...
...what would later be termed "a game for the ages," the two teams traded shots in regulation play, forcing overtime. but only four minutes into that extra session, the inconceivable occured; Lake Superior State's Clayton Beddoes capitalized on an uncustomary Crimson defensive breakdown and scored on a breakway, giving the Lakers the 2-1 win and eliminating the Crimson...
...This breakdown is clear in the reasons New World executives gave for jumping over to Fox: it was the network's limited schedule -- the fact that Fox is only a part-time network -- that made it attractive. Fox offers just 15 hours of prime-time shows a week (in contrast to 22 for the Big Three); it has no morning programming, no afternoon soap operas and no evening newscast. Today many stations see this not as a drawback but as an opportunity to program more of their schedule themselves, both with locally produced shows and with syndicated fare. These shows...
...what made Quayle's speech newsworthy at the time was his attempt to blame Hollywood (and, elsewhere, "the turbulent legacy of the '60s and '70s") for the breakdown of family life in the ghettos. That's why the Murphy Brown passage -- criticizing the fictional TV reporter for having a baby out of wedlock -- got so much attention, as Quayle knew it would. Speaking in San Francisco shortly after the L.A. riots, Quayle was attempting to deflect any blame away from the Reagan-Bush Administration that had been in putative charge of the country for 11 years. But more than that...