Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshmen (54% of the veterans v. 49% of the freshmen were dissatisfied). But the senior members have tended to support the leadership in public, while the first-termers have voiced their complaints and even talked of trying to dump Albert as Speaker-a move that would doubtless fail...
...that created it contains such glaring contradictions that the Postal Service is virtually destined to fail. On the one hand, it is expected to break even; Government subsidies are even now being phased out, with 1984 as a hoped-for cut-off date. On the other hand, it is expected to provide all kinds of public services-many of them money losing-that Americans have depended on for generations, and still depend on today. "The Postal Service," says the law, "shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the nation together through the personal...
Preliminary reports show that the Fund, which supplies the Faculty with about one-tenth of its unrestricted funds, may fail to top last year's figure of $4,802,000 by a few percentage points, and will almost definitely fail to reach its $5-million goal established last fall...
Somewhere along the line, though, these people seemed to fail to make some distinctions--those between appropriate and inappropriate ways to pursue their worthwhile ends...
...more than 25 years simply because he says he likes to do it, insists he's happy the University counts the interviews more lightly than other items in the candidates' folders. He cites instances where some alumni get to meet with the student for only a few minutes and fail, because of time considerations and often lack of perception, to get anything out of the student, thus making the interview an unreliable indicator...