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...Harvard] is a team that keeps the pressure on you offensively," Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said." If you have a mental breakdown, for even 30 seconds, you're in trouble. They ran their system tonight, and that’s a credit to them...
...presidency because of his workaholic's attention to details, Reagan's detachment from the daily workings of his Administration have enabled him to appear younger and rosier every year. But while detachment from the demanding work of the presidency may be physically healthy, it inevitably leads to a breakdown of the president's immunity to policy failure. The recent discovery of the "Contramania" scandal reveals the weaknesses such detachment can breed...
...relentless toll stems in part from the breakdown of traditional authority in the townships. Of about 20,000 blacks who have been arrested since the state of emergency was imposed last June, many were local leaders who headed activist community organizations and helped maintain order in the black townships. With them now in jail, new and more violent leaders have come forward. In some cases the toughest person on the street rules, exercising a savage authority that does not dispense much justice and drives many townships toward chaos. Some township residents have complained that white police authorities often remain...
...which require pilots to keep their heads down much of the time. Flights are diverted to open airports and long delays develop. At the New York area radar facility on Long Island -- which controls Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports -- one controller says, there is "some sort of equipment breakdown two or three times a month" during which "everybody scrambles into high gear...
...main forces generating the mergers is the breakdown of barriers to interstate banking. Today, 36 states and the District of Columbia permit out-of-state financial institutions to buy a local bank, at least under some conditions, up from four states just four years ago. Texas put out the welcome mat last September. Its legislators hope that out-of-state institutions will have the resources to help Texas banks overcome the depression in the region's oil and real estate industries...