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Mexicanos living in urban poor communities experience almost daily a breakdown in social relations.
Or the legendary St. Clair McKelway, whose decisive breakdown came when he hailed a cab and prevailed upon the driver to take him to the New Yorker office at 24 West 43 rd St. "O.K.
The NYT has a good front-page piece about the juvenile court system, making the point that it is so overwhelmed by the increase in juvenile crime and the breakdown of the family that almost no one believes it still serves a useful purpose.
In particular, local intra-articular expression in naïve joints stimulated cartilage breakdown, as measured by synovial GAG levels, without enhancing new matrix synthesis.
These results suggest that the inhibitory effects of 0.4 M sorbitol + 0.03 M Glc on lipid breakdown are less specific than the effects of 0.3 M Glc.