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• Institutional frameworks were in tatters, " the planner said.
• Also, the two leading Watergate reforms are now in tatters.
• The promise of peace held out by Rabin is in tatters.
• Today, both sides of this tacit agreement lie in tatters.
• But the economy was still in tatters and violence still pervasive.
• Now, Junichiro Koizumi's diplomatic offensive is in tatters.
• The " road map " is now in tatters.
• The defeat left Jones'once-impressive career in tatters.
• But many of the surrounding structures are still in tatters.
• He left the University of Massachusetts basketball program in tatters and disgrace.
• By 1989, Coetzee's career was in tatters.
• A year later, her career in tatters, she killed herself.
• Now seven years after the Gulf War, it seems in tatters.
• Today, Quebec's separatist movement lies in tatters.
• The nation's largest chain of psychiatric hospitals lies in tatters.
• Russia is a sick country, its social safety net in tatters.
• The government is riddled with corruption, the econonmy is in tatters.
• Bush argued that Gore's credibility was in tatters.
• But the ruling left the case against Estrada in tatters.