Jeff Sterley, a broker with Pacific Union Residential Brokerage in suburban Greenbrae, Calif., said that 30percentt of accepted offers are now being broken, up from 20percentt a year ago and 10percentthree years agogo.
Similar problems exist in Guatemala, and in the last few years, child-smuggling rings geared toward adoption have been broken up everywhere from Vietnam to Cyprus to Mexico.
Families have been broken up indefinitely, caregivers kept from their sick parents and children.
The prices paid for the pages ripped off the greatest royal manuscript from 16th-century Iran, Shah Tahmasp's "Book of Kings," which was broken up from the late 1960s on by its then-owner Arthur Houghton Jr., keep shooting up.
Whoever was responsible, the warhead design appears now to have been a sought-after prize of the network of nuclear middlemen and parts producers that American officials say is being broken up, from Germany to Malaysia, and from Dubai to the Netherlands.
The period misogyny was broken up from time to time by the appearance of someone slightly unexpected, like a truly famous actor, Jimmy Stewart or John Wayne, graying by that point and speaking lines a bit beneath their dignity, or a politician, like Barry Goldwater or Hubert Humphrey.
The high-turnout, seemingly settled two-party class politics of mid-20th century Britain has been breaking up for decades now, almost from the very moment in 1951 when the Conservatives and Labour between them captured 97% of the votes in the general election.
So far, the project has prevented 25 families from being broken up and moved into institutional care.
Ms Zhukova and Mr Abramovich also bought a collection of Ilya's work (at Emilia's request) to save it from being broken up and sold off piece by piece.As visibly successful Russian artists in exile, the Kabakovs face a particular pressure: the growing importance of patrons from Russia and the increasing appetite of rich Russian buyers for their work.
The site is broken up into time based categories, from Deciding (to have a divorce) through Moving On (at the end of the process).
