Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baron Pittenger, associate director of athletics, conceded on Thursday that there was indeed intra-departmental confusion over facility allocations. "What I think has happened," Pittenger said, "is that because of schedule conflicts there has been a communication breakdown and the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. But we'll straighten this all out at the first of next week...
Readers who examine these letters for evidence of Woolf's fits of insanity will be disappointed. There are only the slightest variations in style and tone. Generally the onset of her breakdowns (she had two during the years this volume of her letters covers) was marked by a particular bitchiness in Virginia. As she recovers, her letters are extraordinary for their clarity and maturity. She emerges from each breakdown refreshed, with a new power of vision. After one summer-long madness she writes to Violet...
...Crimson yachtsmen lost their wind in the B-division. Jim Hammett could do no better than sixth place in Saturday's competition and teammate Tony Leggett was the victim of two capsizes and a breakdown on Sunday...
...elegant La Fontaine restaurant. As she nibbled at a portion last week, a well-dressed Salisbury matron observed that "the brouhaha over black rule was a bit of a bother, but the talks are ended and that's all over now." Did she see anything ominous in the breakdown of black-white dialogue? "Oh heavens, no. My servant tells me all of his people want us to stay and run the country. He's terribly trustworthy, you know...
...breakdown of the income components within the University's 1974-75 budget provides and additional picture of the financial problems facing Harvard. During the late 1960s, student revenues contributed a little more than 20 per cent of total income. Since 1968-69, however, the percentage of revenue derived from this source has increased steadily, reaching 28 per cent last year. Though this year students provided 27 per cent of the income, it is clear that tuition will continue to rise, and play an ever-increasing role in the income side of the economic picture...