Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, by far the smallest of the camps with only 5,000 refugees, there has been only a 2% breakdown rate, and officials predict that out-processing will be virtually completed by Oct. 1. This is in part because of Eglin's small size but also because it has had very good relations with nearby communities. Surprisingly, the camp's many semiliterate fishermen have been among the fastest to find jobs. Says James Chandler, a State Department liaison officer at Eglin: "I thought the fishermen would be the hardest group to place...
...Despite ardent attempts by Boston fans to stuff ballots. Lynn lost out to the likes of Bonds. Rudi ad Reggie Jackson. Still he will play tonight in Milwaukee, chosen by manager as an early substitute. All-Star or no, he's Rookie of the Year baring a major nervous breakdown, and Most Valuable Player is not out of the question, either...
...York's problems are a memento mori to other state and local governments. Last week neighboring New Jersey and Pennsylvania were suffering through difficulties that, though less acute than New York's, reflected common themes-an inability to compromise, a breakdown in the eleventh-hour bargaining that used to work when governments, unions and taxpayers came to the brink. On a more fundamental level, the problems suggested that states and cities are more and more coming up against very hard choices: What public services must be dispensed with or cut back if there is simply not the money...
Although a total breakdown of figures will not be available until next September, Clifton said the survey shows that 86 per cent of those contacted had given to the fund, and about 70 per cent of the alumni give almost every five years...
...divorced, or somebody disappeared, or a girl slit her wrist with the top of a spaghetti can-well, the other revelers could not pause too long over the misfortune lest they lose their grip and go under too. Wilson himself almost did. In 1929 he suffered a nervous breakdown, probably from the cumulative strain of deadlines and tangled romances. While in the sanitorium he became addicted briefly to the drug paraldehyde...