Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collection of domestic victims of the war--of their collective Suffering. The Au.'s doggedness is of the same guilt-ridden stripe as the repetitive and brutal naturalism of Gunter Grass: that, if it is too simple to condemn Nazi Germany with bombastic self-righteousness, maybe we will not fail if we do our literary best to reproduce every shivering detail of some tiny local aspect of this horror...
...applicants. The GSAS plan, if implemented, would enable a prospective graduate student to submit an application to one school and have it reviewed automatically by other schools; this plan would include Harvard, Yale, Princeton and possibly other schools. The major benefit of this "consortium" is that it probably cannot fail to increase the individual departments' awareness of qualified students. The potential drawbacks are that department chairmen may fail, as they have in the past, to become involved in the actual implementation of the program, shirking the responsibility of individual recruiting. Secondly, the GSAS might use this plan...
...follow that pattern, its effect in holding down price increases would at best be long-run and indirect. Assurance of a continuing Soviet market might encourage U.S. farmers to plant more crops. Also, building up of a Soviet grain reserve might discourage sudden and inflationary purchases when Russian crops fail. But nothing in the Japanese agreement prohibits additional purchases beyond the agreed minimum, and it is likely that a Soviet agreement would not do so either. Whatever the terms of a U.S.-Soviet arrangement, they are expected to be worked out quickly; talks among lower-level officials have been going...
...rewrites do not yet rate a 60 on his scale-the level, he says, of the New York Daily News or SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But be it hereinafter understood that whereas the aforementioned and previously established methodology of contract composition has been adjudged dull and devoid of intelligibility, companies that fail to adjust do so at their own risk...
These tips are from Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It (Random House; $8.95). Another current power book, Robert J. Ringer's Winning Through Intimidation (Funk & Wagnalls; $9.95), has some equally keen advice: do not trust anybody at all; assume you will fail, so your positive mental outlook will not be crushed by a setback; make as much money as you can, because life is short and pointless and there is nothing better...