Word: failed
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...years. Minnesota is just beginning such a program, and Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin are now considering similar requirements. Applied nationwide, such courses should make a start at weeding out or shaping up those members of the bar who do not practice actively, those who fail to keep current on the laws affecting their specialties, and it is hoped, those who are ignorant or insensitive about the ethics of their profession...
...viewpoint of an isolated individual. Black Thursday, like Lacombe Lucien, obscures the need to explain collaboration and resistance in wider terms, to determine not only why one individual made a specific moral choice, but rather why a whole nation allowed the deportation to occur. Consequently, both these films fail to cope with the fundamental issues involved in the occupation and so offer inadequate explanations of even individual motivations. In this sense, the Sorrow and the Pity, with its comparative scope and superior analytic technique, is a more penetrating investigation of collaboration than either of these films it has inspired...
...problems of Chinese teenagers. In the last two years, the Chinese community has seen its first rise in juvenile delinquency. The Chinese have traditionally valued education--many immigrants came here expressly for better educational opportunities. Traditions within families arise when children, handicapped by their lack of English, fail to live up academically to their parents' expectations...
Among the causes of grade inflation cited by students and faculty members over the past few years are the increased availability of pass-fail fourth-course options, more lenient course grading policies, and, according to Mansfield, "the increased publicizing and patronizing of easy graders...
BELLA ABZUG, unmarried pregnant girls, Radcliffe women in Harvard classrooms, successful women and, potentially women who don't use feminine hygiene spray deodorants, all have one thing in particular in common. They all commit what Patricia Meyer Spacks identifies as the "ultimate feminine sin" of conspicuousness. They fail to remain in the background as women are supposed to do, with veils concealing their faces and faces concealing their thoughts...