Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isolation from the world was a key element in the Camp David summit, and only after it was over did the participants start to tell bits and pieces of this extraordinary two-week confrontation. The pieces add up to a dramatic chronicle of clashes and near breakdown before the final accord...
...CONNOR, these political dynamics are intimately bound to economic interests, and The Fiscal Crisis begins with a breakdown of the economy into its public, competitive, and monopoly sectors. Each sector is scrutinized for the demands it makes upon the state, and for its access to political power...
Harvard had dominated most of the play on Wesleyan's short field; it had controlled midfield for much of the game as Michael Smith, among others, played especially well; it had only one major defensive breakdown before the final score and Billy Blood had stalled that first-half Wesleyan thrust with a superlative diving save to his right; and it had slowly begun to open holes in the Wesleyan defense with long passes from John Sanacore and Smith. But the Crimson had not scored...
...breakdown in communications" is what officials like to call such situations. Idiocy is perhaps more accurate...
...currencies of Japan and the West European countries rise against the dollar, the products of these countries become more expensive and harder to sell in world markets-so their economies are threatened too. At worst, the process, if allowed to continue, would lead to a breakdown of world trade and investment, for businessmen cannot make rational decisions if they do not know what the major trading and reserve currency-the dollar-will be worth months or weeks or even days hence. At times last week the dollar swung as much as 1% to 2% in value against some other currencies...