When it breaks down, everything breaks down.
How without trust everything breaks down: friendships, partnerships, even our relationship with the state.
"If I fail, everything breaks down," Mayor David L. Armstrong said as he worked to calm a citywide furor over a march on City Hall last Friday by a large and angry part of the force.
With everything breaking down, Dean still tries to eke some fun out of the partnership, booking into a ludicrous theme hotel where they spend a night in the "Future Room", a claustrophobically tacky sci-fi B-movie set, all blue light and metal: a painfully ironic choice for a couple that may not have a future.
One European factory boss in Lagos, pestered by head office to draw up contingency plans for coping with the millennium bug, scoffed: "If everything breaks down on January 1st, how will we notice the difference?"Fraud, too, is a big problem.
"Everything breaks down," Rose says, "but rocks don't".
Where everything breaks down is quality versus cost.
And like the FlexPai itself, everything breaks down if you fold it enough.
Now, you might think that this would be bad news, but no! Instead of everything breaking down, some puzzling combination of Coca Cola and positive emotions floods everyone's computer, and everything is great.
"When a child is severely malnourished, everything breaks down.
