Word: failed
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...department. Is it logical to assign as much weight to third place as to first? I am further confused by a classification that assigns three out of five main groupings to the pure or applied sciences and none to the arts, medicine, law, business or theology. I fail to see why it is more logical to divide engineering four ways than to break up, say, history or philosophy. I fail to see why Spanish, geography or entomology are analyzed at the expense of Slavic languages, public health or education. Since "the report is certain to be taken as a guide...
...President, at least, was sanguine about Medicare's future. "I do not believe the few of little faith who say it will fail," he said to a White House ' delegation from the National Council of Senior Citizens. "I see it as a blessing; I say it will succeed. I see it as a beginning, not an end. I say it is another battle in the larger struggle to ennoble man's life. And I ask-I expect-every man's hand to join with mine in that...
Turning to a third Mao work, "Concentrate a Superior Force to Destroy the Enemy Forces One by One," Chou concluded that "if we worked according to the old method of even distribution of sales forces, we would fail to smash the enemy-the decay of watermelons." Applying Mao, Chou "concentrated overwhelming forces and properly waged the struggle for the watermelon trade." Result: no spoiled melons and a 19,000-yen profit for the season...
Neurosurgeon Robert W. Rand, but is desirable in cases where ordinary EEGs, made with electrodes placed on the scalp, fail to show clearly the side of the brain in which the misfiring is more pronounced. The deeply implanted electrodes, penetrating the temporal lobe to reach the hippocampus* or even part of the cerebellum, sometimes reveal focal areas of electrical misfiring that surface EEGs have missed entirely. If there is misfiring on only one side, it can usually be detected readily, and relieved by surgical removal of the proper piece of brain tissue. If there is misfiring on both sides, surgeons...
...student can ignore the stories of seniors who have been classified 1-A and sent to Vietnam because they were a course short, or of frenzied appeals to provincial Selective Service boards who fail to understand Harvard's system of course credits. The draft has become an inevitable stumbling block for any student who considers the slightest deviation from a program of four sequential full years of college. The desire for security has led many of them to reconsider ROTC...