Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Rosovsky declined to comment on specific cases ("I do not think these things should be part of the public discussion"), he said that slightly less than one in five candidates fail to make it past the ad hoc committee...
...coming to light. The FBI is investigating the previously unrevealed fact that a few days before President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald dropped in at the bureau's Dallas office to deliver a threatening note. Not only did the Dallas FBI fail to put Oswald under surveillance, but FBI officials destroyed the note after Kennedy's death and then withheld all knowledge of the affair from the Warren Commission...
...avoid default or lead it out of bankruptcy." Chairman Arthur Burns reiterated that the Federal Reserve Board would not guarantee the city's bonds and notes to make them marketable. The Fed argues that even if New York City defaults on all its paper, no large bank will fail...
...millions of children go back to school this week, a distressingly high proportion of them will fail an important medical test. Though effective, safe and usually free vaccines are readily available, these children have no protection against at least four common, communicable and dangerous diseases...
...Administration and the congressional Democrats fail to agree on a gradual phaseout of controls this time around, the nation could be in for a possibly painful test of just how sharp the shock of immediate decontrol could...