It probably didn't hurt that last winter's problems on Metro-North -- the breakdowns, the cancellation of dozens of trains, and the commuter outrage that followed -- offered inescapable proof of the need for change.
Some of the country's largest labor groups — the Teamsters, the Service Employees International Union, the Communications Workers of America and the American Federation of Teachers — said Wednesday they had requested breakdowns of how a dozen companies, including American Airlines and Pepsi, are investing the extra cash.
I was losing my mind over all the Christmas cards I still write a personal note in, having a nervous breakdown over the dozens of pounds of fudge I make for teachers, neighbors, mail personnel and friends, freaking out over the myriad of packages that "needed" to be mailed and suddenly I said to myself: THIS IS YOUR CHOICE.
Their first record has a tendency to sound like a pinball machine having a nervous breakdown: Dozens of ideas clamouring for space while Higgs's vocals pogo up and down his (admittedly impressive) register.
They are, in essence, breakdowns of dialogue.
Nidal Malik Hasan was committing an act of terrorism, rather than having a psychotic breakdown, when he shot dozens of people at Fort Hood last week.
The episode brought to mind the 2006 breakdown of the Roosevelt Island Tramway, which stalled in midair, trapping dozens of passengers over the East River, some for as long as 11 hours.
#WCVB — Jim Lokay WCVB (@LokayWCVB) 15 Apr 13 WCVB-TV News presented a breakdown of where the more than 100 people injured, including at least a dozen children, were being treated at nearly a half-dozen hospitals.
The breakdown of Hollywood's studio system led to the demise of studio orchestras, in which dozens of brilliant émigré musicians once played.
The activist group reported more than two dozen casualties among the rebels, but did not have the breakdown of killed and wounded.
