Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collection of all this material, a dull six-week job enlivened only by the occasional breakdown of the projector or a lunchtime basketball game, is a prelude for Simla's key off-season job: rewriting the offensive and defensive scripts. "To get the clutter out of our playbook," explains Shula, "we have to scrap plays that don't work. If we didn't do that, our quarterback might go into a huddle in a crucial situation, unknowingly pick a flawed play out of the playbook he has memorized, and we could lose." Counting variations on basic tactics...
...COMMITTEE at the GSAS on Friday charged the Graduate School with maintaining "racist" admissions policies. A quick look at the breakdown of graduate student admissions shows that something indeed is amiss...
Although this breakdown is apparent if one examines Conservative oratory and intentions, it is more apparent still in a concrete, economic sense. There is no doubt that Britain is in the middle of yet another economic crisis, but this time the Government has been holding down wages by statutory control, while prices have gotten out of hand. Poor people are beginning to suffer a decline in their standard of living, but taxation of the rich has not increased and has, in some cases, decreased. The totally unnecessary impostion of the three-day work week has hit manual and semi-skilled...
Joint Ventures. Short of a wholesale breakdown in relations between the U.S. and the producing countries, such measures are not likely to be needed for the rest of this century. Indeed, a growing number of U.S. companies are taking a new, more conciliatory approach in their dealings in foreign nations. Instead of seeking total control of production, the firms are going into joint ventures with host countries. The companies are also acceding to demands to build more processing plants, which increase jobs, income and prestige in the producing states. Ultimately, growing prosperity in these states could provide the industrialized countries...
...Irish politics, and a fairly recent convert to the moderates. As Prime Minister in 1971, he took a tough line against the Irish Republican Army, which resulted in harsh crackdowns on the Catholic community and the ruthless policy of interning suspected terrorists. Those tactics led to a complete breakdown in security and the assumption of direct rule by Britain. Last spring, however, Faulkner campaigned for a new constitution calling for power-sharing between the majority Protestants and minority Catholics. The measure passed, and led to the formation of an eleven-man coalition Executive to rule Northern Ireland. It was after...