Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only professional category in which the CEA found a steady and large increase is editors and reporters. In 1970 women made up 41% of that category, v. 25% in 1940. With much reason, even this figure is questioned by newswomen, and the CEA has no separate breakdown of the number of editors...
Andhras separatism has brought sporadic but growing violence and a total breakdown in local authority. The city of Vijayawada has been virtually closed down by a general strike since November. Electric power has been intermittently shut off. Schools and colleges are shuttered, hospitals are minimally staffed and judges have even refused to hold court. Scores of demonstrators have been killed and many more injured in clashes between police and protesters. Two weeks ago, New Delhi imposed "President's rule" over the state, a procedure by which the federal government temporarily assumes control of state affairs. But the action failed...
...movie traipses through Streisand's housewifely fantasies, which range from an anthropological African safari to an interview with Castro, who turns out, in a particularly infelicitous touch, to be a lust-maddened transvestite. Eventually Streisand is subjected to a sort of snit that passes for a nervous breakdown. She packs kids and husband (David Selby) out of the apartment and takes stock, concluding that what she really needs is this one afternoon away from the family, then a great many more children...
...breakdown of the Paris peace talks in December, after such high expectation that peace was finally "at hand," not only embittered much of the U.S. and the world but caused many to regard last week's resumption of the negotiations with as much skepticism as hope. The bitter interim also proved sobering for both sides-for the North Vietnamese because of the fierce U.S. bombing that nearly razed Hanoi, for the U.S. because of worldwide condemnation of the bombing as well as heavy losses of planes and crews. Yet the bitterness did not prevent the two parties from starting...
...crowd of 1291 witnessed a complete offensive and defensive breakdown by coach Jim Calhoun's team. Harvard broke from a 4-4 tie to a 20-7 lead as the pitiful Dogs turned into marshmallow puppies incapable of handling the soup in "Gravy Train...