Word: failed
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...unquestioning faith in the party dogma. When a student told Mrs. Wood during the first lesson that she doubted she would ever read very fast, Mrs. Wood admonished her with "young lady, if there is any doubt in your mind about ultimate success, I promise you that you will fail. You must have perfect confidence in yourself." If a student complains he is not learning it, Mrs. Wood will say "You aren't trying hard enough." To doubt the party dogma, the absolute rightness of the Wood technique, is to fight the system. Fighting the system means...
Challenge was at its most flexible--and least effective--in the only one of this year's innovations to fail--the advisor program. There are about 30 advisors, each with two or three students. The advisors are supposed to visit students at home, talk to their parents, and take the boys on trips. Once every two weeks advisors are asked to meet with teachers to discuss student problems. But most advisors are less committed to Challenge than the teachers. Some have hardly ever seen their advisees. Attendance at the meeting with Challenge teachers has been poor...
...mission to eject a sterilized Martian landing capsule from a flyby vehicle. They have also forced cutbacks on equipment to be carried aboard the Voyager capsule scheduled to land on Mars in 1973. And they have certainly increased the possibility that heat-weakened Voyager components may fail in flight...
Sacred Cows. By trying so diligently to be objective, said King, U.S. newspapers fail to "reflect the vitality of life in the American city, which is so striking to the British newspaperman. No New York paper communicates the salt tang of life, the wit of New York, its physical and intellectual energy, its cynicism and idealism, its pursuit of profit and of scholarship...
...limitation--the point beyond which you wouldn't want all your money" in the always slightly risky world of the market. Daily, or even yearly, shifts in the market don't really concern Harvard, he said, because an investment fund is set up so as not to succeed or fail on the strength of day to day market fluctuations -- Harvard, says Bennett, doesn't bother with "interim moves...