Word: breakdowns
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...buddy has a boat. "She outfishes us both," he boasts. Deryck Miller, a youth counselor in Eagan, Minn., who has custody of daughter Nashan, 13, wasn't sure how to broach the subject of menstruation. In the end, he says, a Girl Scout manual "gave me the best breakdown." His advice to other dads: "Get to that other side, and don't stay stuck on that male macho-ism." It's a pointer that any single father, whether hopscotching or serving hot rolls, is sure to endorse...
...that's what Thompson's job has become, and the confusing and sometimes conflicting information coming out of Washington has caused some who remember the avuncular and authoritative former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop to wince. "There has been a breakdown in the public-diplomacy aspect of [the bioterrorism] issue," says Elisa Harris, a veteran of the Clinton Administration's National Security Council. "What's needed is a constant, calming presence...
During a 1996 race off the coast of Hawaii, Plattner's yacht, the Morning Glory, had a breakdown. A boat owned by archrival Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, cruised by and the crew allegedly mocked Plattner's plight by videotaping rather than helping. He famously mooned the camera...
Dartmouth tacked on another goal four minutes later after another breakdown in the Crimson backfield...
...year later, the bloody tally: Some 170 Israelis and 600 Palestinians have been killed in the past year's intifada, and the bloodletting continues despite this week's renewed commitment to a cease-fire. The first anniversary of the uprising that began in the wake of the breakdown in the Camp David peace finds economy and society on both sides of the divide devastated and traumatized, and any mutual trust established through the Oslo peace process shattered, possibly beyond repair. Still, while leaders on both sides have repeatedly proclaimed that the peace process itself is among the fatalities...