Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While city-room veterans sometimes howl at the loss of space, the writers producing the soaps argue that they report one of the biggest stories of the '70s-the ongoing breakdown of sexual taboos. "Federal Triangle tells a lot about Washington in a way that you can't always do in news copy," says Washington Star Portfolio Editor Mary Ann Dolan. "It's great to get the characters to do things that they would do in real life but would never tell us as reporters," adds Reporter Louise Logue. So that their settings and dialogues will...
Most important is the breakdown in the family. "The old saws about the family are true," says Judge Seymour Gelber, who hears 1,000 delinquency cases a year in Dade County, Fla. "We look for quick solutions, but family stability is the long-term answer." Adds Detective Ellen Carlyle: "The parents don't seem to care. They turn to the police and say. 'Here's my problem. Take care of it.' But they must start caring for their children in infancy...
...esplanation for their alienation; she can say only that these proponents of the counterculture "whistled in the dark, indeed in the blackest emotional midnight, like all the adherents of the counterculture I had ever talked with." Finally, she attributes what she perceives to be the students' isolation to the breakdown of social forms regulating their interactions...
...what it considered a generous offer, especially given its painfully slow economic recovery. The South grudgingly accepted the package, but termed it quite inadequate and refused to give anything in exchange. Said Claude Cheysson, the European Community's commissioner for development: "We were within a hair of a breakdown. If we had known what a risk we were taking, we might never have started this dialogue...
...task forces reporting, Rosovsky's words seem much more like hollow promises than a serious preview of things to come. Without exception, the task force reports released so far have either been disappointing or have been turned into disappointments by the Faculty committee process. A breakdown of the results of these task forces shows how disheartening the review has become...