Word: failed
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Students may fail to live up to their potential in early grades for complex and varying reasons, but that very failure often triggers a common result: the pupil steadily slides farther behind, gets tagged as a dullard, loses confidence in his ability to compete. In a drastic attempt to check that slide, North Carolina's public-school system is pulling such "underachievers" out of their home schools and into a costly public boarding school in Winston-Salem -with remarkable success...
...study of a 15th century Italian duke, Federigo da Montefeltro, a Renaissance humanist, is a fool-the-eye masterwork; the tiny think chamber appears to have cabinets popping open with navigational tools, books and musical instruments. It is all illusion, a 91-foot cube for a pensive nobleman to fail-safe...
...TEAMSTERS: Jimmy Hoffa, 52, is relatively young but much indicted, and if all his appeals fail, he may have to step aside for Einar Mohn, 59, the union's West Coast vice president...
...sorry to hear that some of my countrymen have been U.S.-embassy-demonstrating. What these people, along with many others in the world, fail to realize is that Viet Nam is not merely a local civil war, but a particularly violent symptom of the worldwide fight against Communism...
...French Ponti, however, does not automatically cease being Italian. As it happens, Italy recognizes dual citizenship; some Italians (such as ex-soldiers) can never renounce their citizenship. If Italian courts fail to agree that Ponti has become a 100% Frenchman, marriage to Sophia may bring up the bigamy charge once more. Moreover, if he divorces his first wife in France, she will still be his legal wife in Italy...