Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Smith has offered in talks currently under way between his government and the moderate African nationalist Joshua Nkomo is political parity at some definite future date through equal representation in Parliament, which now contains 50 whites and 16 blacks. The fear is that if the talks fail, Nkomo, in the words of one observer, will become "irrelevant." Then the militant black nationalists, who broke away from Nkomo's group last August, would almost certainly launch an all-out guerrilla invasion by the self-styled Zimbabwe Liberation Army. That army now has an estimated 10,000 guerrillas in Mozambique...
...voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks of the island of Ushant. There the tanker rests, sinking slowly as water seeps in through gashes torn in her hull by the rocks. Last week the Onassis group began final attempts to refloat the tanker; if they fail the ship will be declared a total loss...
...People keep thinking that because we didn't have a revolution we failed. We didn't fail. We're taking over the system from within," he said, adding, "the old leaders have lost the will to resist...
...Moving the Faculty," Wilson says, "is like pushing a wet string--if you don't persuade everyone simultaneously, you will fail." It was a failure to recognize the Law of the Wet String that brought a swift demise to the reviews of undergraduate education at Yale and Princeton in the early 1970s. Both hinged on the work of a single blue-ribbon committee, and both faltered when they tried to gain faculty approval...
...propose a constitutional amendment saying that no press should fail to print an allegation of unlawful incarceration. Every time someone claims he's been arrested illegally, the newspapers would have to print it. Otherwise, the lawyers and doctors could be paid, and people could get put away (nervous laugh...