Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ozone Breakdown...
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown--sponsored by Latinas Unidas. An Almodovar film. Mather House Junior Common Room. 7 p.m. Free admission...
...doctors also found that bFGF accelerated healing in rats without reducing levels of gastric acid in the stomach. The mechanism for this action was discovered in studies which showed that bFGF binds to sucralfate, a drug used to treat ulcers, and is protected from breakdown by stomach acid...
East and West, economic distress is also spurring the rightist revival. In the East, the breakdown of command economies has led to chaos and suffering that the painful birth of free markets has not yet relieved. Western Europe, though far more prosperous, nonetheless has been experiencing some of its highest unemployment rates since World War II. It has been easy for demagogues to blame immigrants who snatch away the jobs of the native-born -- though that happens far more often in right-wing mythology than in reality. The movement toward west European integration has also provoked a nationalist backlash...
Even then, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney judges "remote" the likelihood of intercontinental ballistic missiles coming under the thumb of anyone who would fire them at the U.S. The real menace, most experts believe, is a breakdown of the command structure that would put the easily mobile tactical weapons into dangerous hands. These nukes -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles, nuclear mines -- are much easier to seize than ICBMs stored in underground silos. Already the southern republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan have "nationalized" all military property on their soil, prompting Moscow to announce that the army would shoot...