Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the court, rejected the "psychological injury" standard. Federal law, she said, "comes into play before the harassing conduct leads to a nervous breakdown." While "merely offensive" conduct is not prohibited, she wrote, an employer has broken the law if a "reasonable person" would find the workplace so filled with sexual improprieties that it had become a hostile and abusive environment...
...TIME: There are also reports that you are a depressive who recently had a nervous breakdown...
...Going down 2-0 with only ten minutes left takes the wind out of your sails," junior Pepper Brill said. "The goals we gave up were a result of a mental breakdown. We need more intensity in our defensive box. The second goal they scored was just lazy defense...
...Wildcats opened the second half with their only goal, taking advantage of a breakdown in Harvard's communication on defense. New Hampshire converted a two-on-one situation with 42:36 left in the second half...
...late-summer survey did not provide the breakdown for individual colleges. But, based on an informal survey of several Harvard students interviewed yesterday, the top 10 magazine list here is somewhat different...