Word: fail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...training and military hardware to fall into the hands of human rights violators abroad. Second, it will waste billions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars on policies with a history of failure. Lastly, it will embroil the U.S. unnecessarily in the hemisphere's worst internal conflicts. Not only will this bill fail to achieve its objectives, it will waste U.S. taxpayers' money while deepening the crises in democracy and human rights that afflict the countries where drugs are produced and transported...
...there any way the White House can block release? Clinton attorney Charles Ruff has supposedly set up lines of communication with committee chair Henry Hyde; if they fail, aides expect that Democrats will threaten the end of bipartisan cooperation. Not that the word "bipartisan" has much currency anymore in a House where each member seems to have his own solution to the crisis. In the end, perhaps the only thing that will keep the GOP from letting the tapes be broadcast is the fear of public backlash. After all, Clinton always comes back strongest when he is most under fire...
...international economics, grasping the inexorable forces that are changing the shape of the world day by day. Some critics fault him for settling for a country-by-country approach instead of trying to build a new world economic architecture. In any case, that policy is foundering as weak governments fail to give the markets what they demand...
...frenetic trading that goes on in many funds--even though the very fund managers triggering the trades preach patience to their investors. Lay the blame on pressure for short-term results, if you like. But these paradoxes seem idiotic to me and probably help explain why most funds fail to keep pace with the market. They don't practice selectivity and patience...
...After just a few days, it is far too soon to tell whether Dr. Mahathir's desperate gamble will succeed or fail. The details of the plan have yet to be laid out, and those details will likely determine whether the plan is panacea or poison. Malaysian stocks tumbled on the news Tuesday, then lurched upward Wednesday as investors scrambled for bargains; the next few weeks will likely be turbulent as investors and speculators learn the ropes of what will be a very different Malaysia as far as outsiders are concerned. Inside Malaysia, Mahathir?s plan has already caused chaos...