Word: breakdowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...yesterday's meeting Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, sharply disagreed with Jones over the issue of need. Analyzing the breakdown of a student's expenses he concluded that the figure of $2500 "as a base level just doesn't make a lot of sense...
...Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages. She has been about to break up with Prince Philip 73 times, on the verge of abdicating 63 times, and near a nervous breakdown 32 times. And she has expelled Lord Snowdon from court no fewer than 151 times...
Sometimes the frustration that fires aggression is highly impersonal. Yale Psychoanalyst Robert Jay Lifton links at least some violence to general frustration, anger and anxiety over countless "little deaths"-the failure of national morality, the breakdown of family life and feelings of alienation in a mobile population. Boredom, too, drives people to look for meaning in nihilistic violence, to accept the philosophy "I kill, therefore...
...year, Schrag saw a shift in his values, as well as those of his staff. "We [normally] condemned eavesdropping and wiretapping. We protested the use of informers and secret agents." But now he could understand how "a pig is born." Observing victims of fraud and a breakdown in civil justice is bad enough. But the policeman sees "the victims of physical violence. And when he turns to the courts, he discovers that criminal justice has failed [even] more completely." Such frustrations create "a determination to apprehend and punish the offender, one way or another. Conscientious law-enforcement agencies [are] stretched...
...report, which was released yesterday, includes extensive information about HSA's administrative expenses, an agency-by-agency breakdown of profit and loss, and a breakdown of those receiving managerial wages and profit shares...