Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should break our silence on the breakdown of values," Edelman said. "Children need to be respected, and we should not ask them to be responsible for problems we have created...
...attributed the causes of youth violence mainly to child-neglect, the lack of gun control and the breakdown of communal and spiritual values...
...next night saw a complete defensive breakdown by the Crimson, as Colgate scored the final three goals of the game (two in the last 1:57) to hand the Crimson its first defeat of the season...
...Monday, the situation had turned ugly. Our initial team fell apart when one of our best writers suffered what we thought was a horrendous nervous breakdown; it turned out just to be a nasty case of epilepsy, but our beloved writer is still recuperating and will not be available until she returns from her stay in the Tropics...
...singling out great songs is what I'm here to do. So. "A Pit With Spikes" (a simpler version of which came out late last year as the "advance single") is a witty, sad, reticent boy's version of a romantic breakdown: he begins by telling a girl that their future is up to her, and ends in a swoon of self-accusation: "A pit with spikes is what I'm bringing you, hon.../ I'm not so deep that I can't be swum..." There's also a incongruously, startlingly cool falsetto bridge where head Egg Andrew Beaujon sounds...