21.   Unless there is a complete breakdown in budget negotiations, the bill is expected to be approved by Congress and signed by President Clinton within the next few days.

22.   Whatever the diagnosis, it withdraws into itself even as the audience watches, and finally suffers a complete breakdown.

23.   What Boren said he regrets most about the state of affairs in Washington is the complete breakdown of a sense of bipartisanship.

24.   Private air transport is big business in Zaire, where government corruption has led to a complete breakdown in infrastructure.

25.   Chirac has sought to keep open the chance of new talks, since a complete breakdown would constitute another political setback for the president.

26.   Efforts by the monitors to talk to both sides and visit the fighting areas appear to have helped prevent a complete breakdown of the wobbly truce.

27.   Failure could mean a complete breakdown in negotiations and a return to violence.

28.   The offense struggled once again, but this time it was complemented by a complete breakdown on defense.

29.   Those efforts, and visits to the areas of conflict, appear to have helped prevent a complete breakdown of the shaky truce.

30.   Under extreme pressure, officials erased some cargo inventory data, which led to a complete breakdown of the operations, the radio reported.