Word: breakdowns
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...could begin to better understand the brain.“I was interested in behavior in some way that was hard to put your finger on,” Sanes says. “What spot in the brain accounts for how we act? When somebody has a nervous breakdown, what is actually breaking down? We’re beginning to claw our way there.”But as Sanes and Lichtman seek to add to human understanding, they say they’re also hoping to attract undergrads to their field. Both teach...
...been divorced three times before that. Yes. My first marriage was really a starter marriage of one year to somebody who was quite mad. Brilliant and mad. And the marriage came apart when he had a breakdown. So it seems like not a marriage at all because we were both so young. My marriage to Allan Jong and to Jonathan Fast were more real marriages, but we outgrew each other. Ken and I have a good marriage, I think, in that we allow each other complete freedom and space. Nobody is trying to imprison the other...
While the disclosed assets represent only a small fraction of the University’s total holdings, the shift hints at possible changes in the breakdown of the University’s investment portfolio, as Harvard’s money managers seek to navigate continuing market turmoil...
...know how much money we have to spend on the entire year, but the breakdown [between events] is not as clear,” Mee said. “We’d definitely like to make the breakdown more clear, and be able to transmit that to the student body,” he added of the group’s finances...
...death, the household is broken up, the house sold: "Gone, and they the servants would never find another berth like this one, the gravity of the house, the gentleness of the master, the vast damp rooms, the slow lugubrious pace, the order within disorder." That generational shift, the breakdown of the feudal system into something recognizably modern but no less disorderly, gives Mueenuddin his subject...