Look at the disintegration.
In the smaller khanates that emerged at the disintegration of the Golden Horde (15th century), Old Kipchak remained in use.
But more often than not, Putnam points the finger at the disintegration of the American community, the subject of his most famous book, Bowling Alone.
"Merrily," the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical that takes a backward-in-time look at the disintegration of a songwriting team's professional and personal relationships, will open the Encores! season on Feb. 8 and run through Feb. 12.
Asked a few weeks ago by Tom Friedman if he thought he was present at the disintegration of the postwar order, Obama said, "There are a bunch of places where good news keeps coming," and he cited countries like Indonesia and Chile.
We may be "present at the disintegration" not just of a strong Iraqi central government, but, more profoundly, of "the whole Arab state system established by Britain and France after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire".
Kanan Makiya ("Present at the Disintegration," Op-Ed, Dec. 12) offers a convoluted plan involving "governorates" and "a committee of expert constitutional lawyers," finding tortuous ways to keep that country's disparate interests from going their separate ways.
It's hard enough to seem turned on by Uncle Fester without having to stare at literal disintegration.
The time it took for images to start rivaling depended on the contrast: At high contrast, disintegration started at about 200 ms.
There's no reason to believe that the Alphabet move will alter that integrationist course – and as long as these services are interconnected at the data level, their apparent disintegration at legal and financial levels is of little strategic consequence.
