Word: breakdown
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During the same period, Edsall argues persuasively, the Democratic leadership refused to face the political implications of the emerging black underclass. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as a Johnson adviser in 1965, had the prescience to describe the "tangle of pathology" resulting from the breakdown of ghetto family life. But many liberals denounced his analysis as racist. In failing to address unpleasant realities, the Democrats handed conservatives harsh symbols -- from Reagan's "welfare queen" to the Bush campaign's Willie Horton -- with which to stoke white fury...
RAISA GORBACHEV'S apparent nervous breakdown did not surprise top Soviet analysts. The normally vigorous First Lady was showing signs of tension when she accompanied her husband to the London economic summit in July. Drawing aside Barbara Bush, Raisa confided her worries about Mikhail's political future, even hinting that she feared for his life. Soviet officials in Europe report that she became hysterical several times during her Crimean captivity, and speculate that she has suffered a stroke and a heart attack...
...course lectures, but a few are, and the glamour has rubbed off. "There's so much to worry about," says Sandy Gallin, Hollywood manager of top stars, who attended Williamson's lectures and then invited her to bless his star-studded birthday party for Geffen. "Put together the ecological breakdown, disease and the recession: we gotta pray to get out of this one." Actor Tony Perkins credits the course with quieting his mind: "It slows down your repetitive, competitive and comparative thinking processes...
Apartheid always was an unworkable as well as immoral system whose breakdown was inevitable. But the trade and financial sanctions imposed by the U.S., the European Community, the Commonwealth and other groups of nations hammered home to South African whites, as probably nothing else could have, the fact that their country had become a global outlaw, judged unfit for membership in the world community of nations. Their dismay at that knowledge accelerated the process of dismantling apartheid at least a bit, and perhaps with somewhat less violence than would have been the case without sanctions. Now that the process seems...
...Crescent, 80% of all deaths since the cease-fire have been youngsters. A Harvard medical team that visited Iraq in late April estimated that 170,000 children will die of gastrointestinal disease complicated by malnutrition as a result of the war. Allied bombing of power stations caused the breakdown of the water- purification system...