His powerful ABC News special last week unearthed both a systemic national breakdown in veterans' medical care and a cover-up.

So if you are looking for systemic breakdown, I believe you have to think today in terms of social breakdown.

It is a systemic breakdown, and we need to look more broadly at why it happened.

It was not a systemic breakdown.

In part, this stems from the fear that if the recession continues or worsens, the banking crisis would be aggravated and could lead to a systemic breakdown.

We conclude there was a systemic breakdown in accountability and ethics.

"Self-diagnostic exam series suggests total systemic breakdown during the next two to six hours," Nigel said, sounding glum but otherwise calm.

"We found a systemic breakdown in the compliance mechanisms of the firm," Denise Voigt Crawford, the Texas state securities commissioner, said.

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

The job before Congress and the administration now is to better understand the systemic breakdown that left the nation so vulnerable and to prevent a recurrence.