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...Union have clung to power until their deaths. But the one exception -- Nikita Khrushchev, the earthy reformer of a generation ago -- stands as a cautionary reminder of the perils of perestroika. The combination of glasnost and demokratizatsiya runs the risk of giving conservatives the chance to point to a breakdown in social order. This is a major consideration in one of the most order-obsessed regimes on earth. Gorbachev's situation, like the fate of his reforms, will thus remain precarious...
...People who talk about the breakdown in the relations between the signifier and the signified and use all sorts of lit-crit terms like "transgress" and "privilege" as a verb...
Estrada described conditions of social disorder and a breakdown of the Salvadoran educational system. He said that U.S. involvment beginning in 1980 has worsened economic and social conditions. He cited an increase in the unemployment rate from 14 to 70 percent, a jump in illiteracy from 40 to 60 percent and a tripling of food costs...
...failed when time ran out. I nearly had a breakdown in the middle of the Science Center...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people and situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place looks like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura is the put-upon heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty new auteur Pedro Almodovar...