Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current testing of new compounds is done by manufacturers. If their record is spotty, it is at least partially due to the difficulty of setting up foolproof test procedures. The tests depend largely on interpreting how results in laboratory animals will apply to man, and they usually fail to take into account synergistic effects (a seemingly benign substance, combined with other compounds in the environment, sometimes becomes hazardous). The chemical industry is moving to correct the situation. Eleven of the biggest companies have pledged $12 million to start a Chemical Institute of Toxicology to work out better test procedures...
...leaders and stars that both made the sixties and betrayed them." In Kennedy's Children, each of five characters sits in a bar, gets drunk, and relives a personal and national tragedy. At the rate of ten platitudes per minute, they try to "unfuck themselves from the sixties." They fail and the play fails; the playwright, like his characters, cannot detach himself from the decade he is trying to analyze...
...Amnesty Fail...
...American Note is headlined "The Amnesty Failure" [Sept. 22]. You are wrong. Amnesty did not fail. Only the narrow, shallow, unrealistic "clemency" program has "quietly fizzled." It deserved to fail. Now let's give amnesty a chance...
...have been amazed at the number of Americans who have taken it upon themselves to judge a public servant for his activities in pursuit of happiness, rather than his capabilities in handling his elected job. I still fail to understand how Wilbur Mills' relationship with me could in any way reflect on his ability to write tax laws. When certain people were calling upon him for favors and guidance, I doubt if they prefaced their requests with questions about his personal life-be it sex, alcohol or whatever-and I have no doubt these same people are not asking...