Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gauging a company's health is to inspect its net profit-its earnings after all costs, taxes, depreciation and interest charges are deducted. In turn, net profit is split into dividends and cash retained for investment. Before World War II, when expansion was comparatively small, such a breakdown gave an accurate idea of profits. But today, because of expansion, many economists, including those at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, think that it gives a misleading impression...
...king and court of Shakespeare's Elsinore, argues Author West, represent all governments, all men. Nobody has clean hands. Ophelia is usually presented on the stage as a convent-type sweetie who has a nervous breakdown; in fact she is just "a disreputable young woman," a docile pawn in her father's plot to match her with Eligible Bachelor Hamlet. "No line in the play suggests that she felt either passion or affection for him." Even the ghost of Hamlet's father is tainted, as Author West sees it: he is the voice of the past...
...even grander scale, he has accused Meyner of permitting "a complete breakdown at the state level in the law enforcement machinery," and has hinted darkly that the administration is covering up a "major garbage collection scandal" in Bergen County until the election is over...
Kirk Cites Breakdown...
Professor Kirk cited "the breakdown of self-determination when attempted in plural societies, such as Palestine and Kashmir. But Makarios replied that, "according to that principle, where there is no homogeneous population, colonial rule must prevail...