Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles earlier this week released the breakdown of savings from Faculty budget cuts--the reason the deficit came in lower than projected...
...interviewed President Sadat in Alexandria, and I asked him if he had opposed having King Hussein of Jordan join him at Camp David. He said, "You remember that we were twice on the verge of a breakdown in the 13-day meeting. If we had added Israel's problem with Jordan and the Palestinians to the problems between Egypt and Israel, there would have been no peace in the next 20 years." If you give one Arab partner a veto right over another, forget about achieving peace...
...breakdown of concentrations of house members found that two houses were under-represented in the sciences (as low as 9 percent) and two in the humanities (as low as 16 percent), while one house was overrepresented in the social sciences (63 percent). Once again, it was determined that friendships with students from other concentrations offered a necessary introduction to different modes of thought...
...jagged cracks running from top to bottom. Before a word is spoken, this symbol -- with its promise of that facade's eventually cracking wide open -- conveys the aura of physical decay and revolutionary social change that drives Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hr. epic about AIDS, gay liberation and the breakdown of the Reagan era's sanctimonious hypocrisy...
...administration that whines apologies for its liberal free speech policies. The utter breakdown of grammar, style, taste, conscience and general merit in the newer Yorker. Flaccid white walls in the Lowell dining hall. People bothering to argue about the relative intellectual merits of Madonna's book. The kidnapping of the Rational Right by various mutated isthmus-dwellers. The destruction of the public space in front of Au Bon Pain so the Ministry of Holyoke can grow by .4 percent this year...