Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing need for electricity? After years of what Chairman Lewis L. Strauss considers "impressive progress," the Atomic Energy Commission is beset on all sides-especially by U.S. businessmen who fear, as one said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast the U.S. is traveling along the road to commercial nuclear power, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Atomic Power...
...federal tax on passenger fares, passed during the war to discourage travel, and the 3% tax on freight; encourage railroad mergers; allow the roads to diversify more widely into other forms of transportation, such as trucks and planes. Said the Central's President Perlman: "If we fail to convince you of the desperate need to act now, if you fail to act, the nation's railroads will go downhill ever faster, dying of starvation...
...might be built on the land which is now under water. That the water backed up as a result of piling operations might flood numerous cellars all along the Charles, or that the plan would eliminate one of the metropolitan area's most used and sightly parks, the Sullivans fail to mention...
...over such wide and hard-to-dramatize areas as public health, education and agriculture, whereas any Indian can remember what the Russians have done: "They have given us a steel mill." So far, the caliber of Soviet aid has been relatively high. "The Russians are keeping their promises without fail," said one Indian expert. "Progress at Bhilai is ahead of schedule." But despite the U.S.S.R.'s best efforts, the Nehru government continues to resist proposals that would send too many Indians to Russia for technical training or allow Russian technicians to spread out over the Indian countryside...
Both teams opened the game in a zone, but Columbia switched into a man-to-man near the end of the first half in an effort to stem a Crimson offensive rally, marked by excellent outside shooting by the whole team. But the new Lion strategy was to fail in its purpose...