Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which the trend jumps upward or even temporarily downward. In Beirut, for example, periods of especially severe political unrest were paralleled by a sharp rise in depression. Overall, though, the trend is steadily upward in every age group. The cause? Researchers suggest it might have to do with the breakdown of families, or increased drug use, or the fact that more people are living in cities. The truth is they simply don't know, which is depressing in itself...
...feel that the current breakdown, althoughnot perfect, is not a failure. We moved in theright direction," he said
...Sometimes when you're physically tired at the end of a game, you can mentally breakdown," Harvard Coach John Dooley said. "That's what happened back...
Boris Yeltsin contends that he does have a final goal in view: to turn Russians into modern democrats with a free-market economy that can claim its rightful place in the world community. Some passengers are worried that there will be a colossal breakdown en route. Others are experiencing motion sickness as they try to grapple with new ideas like demokratizatsiya and privatizatsiya or attempt to figure out what makes brokery different from raketeery. (It is instructive that the Russian language has no words of its own for these borrowed concepts.) Still others shout for Yeltsin to crack the whip...
...goal. But in a hokey production all too typical of Washington's Shakespeare Theater, Hulce fails to make the words sound sincere and obscures the political and revenge narratives with muddling about real-or-feigned madness. Francesca Buller comes as close as anyone can to bringing off Ophelia's breakdown, and Franchelle Stewart Dorn provocatively sketches a Gertrude who senses her new husband's perfidy -- yet succumbs anyway...