Word: breakdown
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...different from the one we live in, not only because there's no stigma but because there are also not the kind of structural day-to-day moral supports for not having children out of wedlock. What we need is an approach that recognizes the whole problem: the family breakdown, the moral breakdown, the total absence of traditional economic opportunity...
...game-winning goal came on a defensive breakdown which resulted in a two-on-none break...
...decided that you had to go beyond offering passive services like shelters and actually reach out. When you peel away the layers, you find that a family is broken up or they've had a nervous breakdown or they have a permanent personality disorder that keeps them from holding a job. It's never as simple as just housing. It's going to require some real skill in outreach...
...population was: Anglo 76%, Black 12%, Latino 9%, Asian 3%. By 2050 the breakdown is projected to be: Anglo 52%, Black 16%, Latino 22%, Asian...
...make Europe jealous. U.S. trade across the Pacific is already 50% greater than its transatlantic counterpart, a sizable change from 1980, when the figures were about equal. The European Community knows that APEC could provide the U.S. with a consortium to fall back on in the event of a breakdown in current negotiations over the 111-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which aims to reduce trade barriers throughout the world. As a Dec. 15 deadline approaches, those talks have bogged down on several issues, especially the European Community's insistence on renegotiating an agriculture accord that...