Word: breakdown
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...prove the Clintons knew of it and approved. Who would be a credible witness against them? James McDougal insists they did nothing wrong, appearing last week on the tabloid TV A Current Affair to make the point. Even if he were to decide otherwise, he has suffered a mental breakdown. Susan McDougal is separated from him; last week she pleaded not guilty to a California indictment charging her with embezzling $200,000 from symphony conductor Zubin Mehta, whom she served as a financial adviser. Even Leach concedes the whole affair has no potential to be another Watergate; it is entirely...
...rose from 50 in 1989 to 160 so far this year. At Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 30% of spinal-cord injuries are caused by gunshots. Milwaukee (pop. 630,000) has responded like most cities: with more fear, bigger dead bolts and more angry debate about gun control and the breakdown of families. "We're a small enough town so that every death still really hurts," says Jeffrey Jentzen, the county medical examiner, who has watched the carnage rise over the years. Sometime in the late 1980s, about the time that crack hit town, Milwaukee joined the long list...
Today no one would give Kennedy's speech, and, if given, no one would believe it. It is 30 years later, and we are weighed down by cynicism about government, worries about our economy, deep anxieties about a level of social breakdown we could not have imagined in 1961. True, in the '60s too we had our scolds who told us that money spent on the moon was better spent on this or that program here on Earth. But in a more expansive time, people ignored those with the souls of accountants who knew nothing of national adventure...
...rhetoric portrays gun control only as a necessary first step in a far more arduous journey. In his speeches last week, and especially in his powerful sermon in a Memphis, Tennessee, church last month, Clinton has cast violence as a moral crisis, with its roots in the breakdown of family and community. Every initiative, from welfare reform to health care to job training, becomes a means of fighting crime. "There are a lot of things we have to do in this country to get the violence under control that relate to rebuilding our communities and healing across racial lines...
...appeared at a London benefit. She told the crowd, "You're very lucky to have your patron here today. I was supposed to have my head down the loo for most of the day. ((But)) if it is all right with you, I thought I would postpone my nervous breakdown...