Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fail to mention the rising level of violence in schools as the proportion of blacks increases. Unless the problem is faced, integration will continue to be an expensive failure...
Certainly the kinds of changes Rosovsky was talking about have been happening across the country. There has been a general loosening of constraints across a set of issues that ranges from abolition of required courses to pass-fail grading to even the disappearance of dormitory rules that governed students' personal lives. All the changes did come about in part out of students' interests in as much freedom as possible, but that in turn was based on an assumption that, given the greatest possible latitude, students would be able to make the best possible choices at college. There may have been...
...government in South Asia for at least a thousand years, is to enrich government officials and strengthen the power of the upper castes over the lower, and at this the government is remarkably adroit, efficient, and swift. There are very few construction projects, for example, from which officials fail to achieve their target of bribes, very few internal disturbances from which the peasants gain anything but lip sympathy from the government, very few land reform programs which leave large landowners or bureaucrats (often they are one and the same) poorer than before. Officials of the United States Agency for International...
...even if the harriers fail to recover by this afternoon, they still will have benefitted from some much-needed experience. "We're going down there with inexperience and enthusiasm," McCurdy said, "and that's a lot better than experience and no enthusiasm, which is not fun." McCurdy thought for a moment. "But winning...
...week's flash-fire strike leaves the league mired in confusion. Players on prostrike teams headed into the weekend ready for revenge against opponents who refused to walk out, and that bitterness will not soon fade. Moreover, the Patriots promise they will walk out again if the owners fail to bargain seriously. Should that happen, New England is likely to pick up substantial support. Meanwhile, last week's event led many an irritated fan to an unexpected thought: Sunday without pro football might not be all that...