Word: failed
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...that it will be at least 40 years before Europe catches up economically with the United States, and he suggested that it would probably take a good deal longer even than that. Heath placed much of the blame for this lag on the "economic myopia" of European industrialists who fail to see beyond their own countries' borders...
...THORN TREES, by John Mclntosh. Set in a fictional counterpart of Bechuanaland, the novel tells with special horror how white civilization can fail in the face of the white man's degeneracy and corruption...
...students indicated a more negative attitude toward math than most others: the Japanese were the most positive. "Americans," contends M.I.T.'s curriculum reformer, Dr. Jerrold Zacharias, "have matho-phobia." They are "scared to death" of math, he says, because most teachers are afraid of it themselves and fail "to make it exciting...
...have learned to live with the underdevelopment of their countries...." The answer, he felt, was "motivation," but he did not push this very far. The crucial question for students of development is what determines readiness to be motivated. Why did the community garbage cleanup work in Barrio Miraflores and fail in another barrio in the center of town? And why did the Brooks complete projects when other Volunteers could not? One answer may lie in the person of the director of the Casa del Obrero, a dynamic and dedicated man. Without at least one well placed ally in the local...
...political crystal-gazing is a hazardous occupation and it is possible that none of the two factors mentioned above may ever come into operation. Also, it is quite conceivable that the Congress may fail to reform itself to the extent required. Only time will show what happens. For the present, much more pressing is the necessity to examine some of the other aspects of the recent elections. For example, the rise of regional parties on the plank of regional demands--the D.M.K. is the most prominent example--has already prompted several foreign observers to conclude that India is poised...