1.   Almost everyone now acknowledges that three decades of government welfare have fed an accelerating social breakdown.

2.   But there remains a perception of social breakdown, especially in a country with chronic unemployment.

3.   He has argued, in short, that adopting an American-style open economy will lead inevitably to American-type crime and social breakdown.

4.   New York, not long ago an international byword for urban violence and social breakdown, has suddenly become a model to which Europeans are looking for guidance.

5.   Some Hindus believe cycles of time will bring increasing social breakdown until the world order ends in catastrophe and the cycles begin again.

6.   That is not to say that the dysfunctional family does not exist in Asian communities, and that there are no social breakdowns.

7.   The massacre adds another bloody dimension to a growing sense of insecurity and social breakdown across Mexico.

8.   Yet the president of the World Bank warns of a social breakdown because of the very global economic system he is deemed to personify.

9.   He said while developed nations tend to consider these social breakdowns as inevitable and to accept them, Malaysia could not do so.

10.   In the short term, they will prevent bust deteriorating into social breakdown.