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...their love affair is a conventional one-first meeting and wary attraction, a fairly smooth sail into bed (art movies and paperbacks are the food of love), a mutual discovery of annoying foibles, which predicts the big breakup. It comes finally over her developing career and her cheerful acceptance of the lunatic notion that Los Angeles offers a viable setting for a civilized life...
...money, know-how and organization-to do the job. And their own survival is at stake: unless they expand into new sources of energy, they will die with the depletion of the world's oil and gas reserves. But as long as they face a serious threat of breakup, they will not make the investments required. In return for a pledge to stop dismemberment, Carter should extract a promise that the companies will devote a large share of the profits they would reap from price decontrol to exploration and development of solar, nuclear and synthetic fuels...
Gutman, in one of his counterarguments, came up with this formula: family stability among black slaves - now widely accepted, despite the breakup of many families by sale - was a strong anti-insurrectionist force. Roots seems to agree with this explanation. When Kunta Kinte plans to run away for a second time, despite his partially amputated foot and love for Bell, she tells him that her first husband was killed for running away and her children sold off, and that now she is pregnant again. If slaves revolt or run away, the family is broken or killed. So Kunta stays. Thus...
Some friends suggest that the breakup of his marriage in December was the source of his last bout of despondency. Though he did surfer over the divorce and worried about his ten-month-old son, those closest to Prinze minimize the domestic problem. Indeed, Prinze had been threatening suicide for more than a year. His morbid bent had led him often to watch a copy he had of the Zapruder film of President Kennedy's assassination. Noted Prinze's TV costar, Jack Albertson: "A combination of things had him down. On the set he would sometimes retreat into...
...principal factors in the loss at sea of loaded older tankers has been their sudden breakup because of their worn structures. In the recent past these accidents have happened principally to smaller ships. But now the first generation of VLCCs is nearly ten years old: the world is being serviced increasingly by gigantic ships that have entered the critical and dangerous period of tanker life...