Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White House chief of staff John Sununu has been trying to avenge that hardball act. He had planned to have Bush go on the offensive, blaming / Democrats for the breakdown. But that plan was shelved as inappropriate after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Not until Budget Director Richard Darman and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady were out of town three weeks ago did Sununu get his way. He persuaded the President to interrupt his vacation -- and his direction of the U.S. response to Saddam's aggression -- to blast the Democrats for the impasse. That awkwardly timed sally appeared to embarrass Bush. He concluded...
...CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the La Jolla Playhouse's production, near San Diego, of this harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and of the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...
...breakdown in talks left Bush exactly where he did not want to be: severed from his "no-new-taxes" pledge with nothing to show for it. Darman calculated months ago that Bush could survive the political hit for his U-turn on taxes if in return he solved the deficit problem. As an Administration official admitted, "We got suckered. Now we're in the same place we were three months ago except we've taken a 10-point hit in the polls...
Cloutier-Diflo said the bell broke at 9:30 a.m. yesterday during memorial services for the Class of '55. She added that the problem was likely the aftermath of a previous mechanical breakdown this spring...
...murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...