Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country), buy oil from non-Arab countries and probably go to immediate rationing. It might well hold out for six months without serious discomfort. Quite probably, however, Europe and Japan would put extreme pressure on the U.S. to halt military aid to Israel. Or, if threatened by complete economic breakdown and perhaps social upheaval, some Western nation or nations might intervene in Middle East oil lands. In any case, there is virtual consensus among Western policymakers that Israel must give up almost all of its 1967 conquests and accept a homeland for the Palestinians. Otherwise, wars are likely to continue...
...identity and attempt to live a new life away from these pressures," he explained to Wilson, who the week before had gone on the floor of Parliament to deny that Stonehouse was a spy. "I suppose this can be summed up as a brainstorm, or a mental breakdown. I can only apologize to you and all the others who have been troubled by this business...
...MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert M. Pirsig. A haunting memoir by a father who has recovered from a breakdown and tries to protect his young son from the man he once...
...think he learned what the life of a human being was after he met me and my family. He felt at 65 he had missed a lot and wanted to enjoy life. He's not himself. He's changed. He's having a nervous breakdown, I think, but more physical than mental causes...
...almost any place along the boot of Italy, there is evidence of breakdown. In Rome, hundreds of police fought pitched battles with 600 left-wing students in a square in the picturesque Trastevere section, Rome's equivalent of the Left Bank. Outside Milan, arsonists, probably belonging to a leftist group called the Red Brigades, burned down the warehouses of a company associated with ITT, destroying $10 million worth of telephone equipment. Near Naples a mob of unemployed men, along with their families, blocked a main north-south railway line. Fifty people were arrested before the line was reopened...