Word: breakdown
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...region, and when it decided to protect the tigers, their population recovered from roughly 30 to as many as 400 during the mid-1980s. Unfortunately for the Amur, tiger-bone prices began surging in the early 1990s, just when the fall of the Soviet Union led to a breakdown of law and order in the taiga...
Most Harvard students don't care much one way or another. According to this week's Crimson survey, a majority of undergraduates can't name even two things the council has done in the past year. Apparently, there is a breakdown in the communication channels between representatives and the represented. As a result, many students are still not sure exactly how they feel about the proposed fee hike and many of those who think they know are basing their opinions on misleading information Legitimate reasons for both opposition and support exist...
...quick glance over to the bench reveals that Chris Ford is no longer coaching. After a mental breakdown following the 1993-94 season he was bumped upstairs to become the Celtics' 33rd Vice President...
Harvey Keitel, as director Eddie Israel, casts actors Sarah Jennings (Madonna) and Francis Burns (James Russo) as a middle-class couple on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Having undergone some sort of epiphany, Jennings' character has decided to leave her husband and the comfortable yet destructive life of drugs and multiple-partner sex they share. Employing some sort of twisted method-acting technique, Israel allows his principles to really go at each other in order to heighten dramatic intensity. The audience is asked to believe that Burns is allowed to rape and beat Jennings in repeated takes...
...housing office has consistently refused torelease figures for the racial breakdown of eachof the houses...