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While some of this breakdown can be attributed to the team's youth. Kleinfelder seems at least partly responsible for failing to halt the team's mental slippage. Confronted with a controversy surrounding her dismissal as basketball coach in the middle of lacrosse season, Kleinfelder may have lost some of the intensity with which she has led the program over the last three years...
...ndez optimistically declared: "We are closer to peace than we are to war." Said Sir Anthony Parsons, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N.: "I think we are making progress again." Declared Pérez de Cuéllar on Friday: "There is always a risk of a breakdown." But the two parties "are much closer than when I started my exercise. These next days will be decisive...
...rise in the power of political action committees (P.A.C.s) is alarming. The result is a breakdown of the democratic process in which rich minorities buy votes and elections with total disregard for the rest of America. Ironically, Congress continues to wonder why the public views it with contempt...
...most immediate consequence of the conflict is the breakdown, at least for the moment, of Reagan's attempt to forge an alliance among nations in the Americas to fight Marxist influence in the hemisphere. Washington's decision to back Britain with sanctions as well as rhetoric has helped to divide the Americas once again along North-South lines. A sweeping alliance of left-and right-wing regimes, spanning the ideological spectrum from Cuba to Brazil, has rallied to support Argentina, miscasting it as a victim of colonialist subjugation. "The tilt toward Britain will destroy the coalition we must...
...certainly no expert on fables," Barks says, but his sagas of feathered heroes traveling the world, from Duckburg to outer space, all for the purpose of shoring up wealth, are each laced with a little lesson. In Tralla La, Scrooge suffers a nervous breakdown and, with Donald and nephews at his side, goes in search of a place "where there is no money, and wealth means nothing." They find a valley James Hilton might recognize, hidden behind the highest Himalayas. There Scrooge settles happily until a tin cap from a bottle of his nerve medicine is converted into a piece...