Word: breakdown
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According to Diane Jellis, who works in the Marshall's office, approximately $100,000 is being spent for the occasion. She was unable to give a breakdown of the budget because costs are shared, items are charged and bills are split, she said...
...They often hold up the Japanese system as the ideal. Of course, they neglect the fact that Japanese children watch more TV than American kids and that Japanese TV is often more inane than the American fare. Why engage in complex soul-searching to find the roots of the breakdown in American education when you can pin it on the TV bogeyman...
...loan application. "It was insane," he recalls. "I couldn't even get an accounting from them of what I was paying for." At one point, the Gearys claim, Scientologists held Dorothy hostage for two weeks in a mountain cabin, after which she was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown...
...Newscar swerved to avoid the insulation and smashed into and bounced off a Jersey barrier, spinning across three lanes of oncoming traffic and coming to rest against a wire guard rail in the breakdown lane...
There is nothing farfetched about the idea that there might be a civil war in the U.S.S.R. Senior American intelligence officials believe there is a "very real" possibility of widespread disorder; several analysts compare 1991 with 1917, the year of the Bolshevik Revolution. A complete breakdown, they fear, could happen with stunning rapidity, perhaps in only 10 to 20 days. Says an assessment drafted last week: "Labor strikes in key sectors at the same time political and military power is being fragmented by ((secessionist moves on the part of)) republics, and even ((individual)) cities . . . could create a sudden economic collapse...