Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hamper the peacemaking efforts of the U.S. Secretary of State, who has steadfastly refused to consider undertaking any negotiations with the P.L.O. On the rubber boat that brought the fedayeen ashore in Tel Aviv, Israeli officials found a crudely scrawled English graffito: KISSINGER'S EFFORTS WILL FAIL...
When asked whether I knew of an instance in which a Southwestern person had been promoted over a non-Southwestern person, I responded as quoted. However, you neglected to mention that I definitely did not believe that working with Southwestern had been the deciding factor. You also fail to mention that these appointments were not made for the staff of the high school conference as your article implies...
Drawings composed of unspecified shapes, even if they are carefully conceived, run the risk of seeming flat and dull, not because they fail to give us something to recognize and latch onto, but because they lack a certain attention to organization. Many of Kline's and Pollock's patterns seem repetitive and senseless because they have no apparent structure, even though the artists might have brooded over their drawings for weeks. And the work of these five artists is most captivating when it reveals a consistent, internal structure. One can't help feeling that art, no matter how expressive...
...years of the Nixon presidency. As he left the courtroom, he autographed a huge photo of Nixon for a group of youths. Ehrlichman, who claims to be $400,000 in debt already to his lawyers, came away with only one marginal break from Judge Sirica: if all appeals fail, he will be allowed to serve his new prison term concurrently with a 20-month minimum sentence for conspiracy in the Daniel Ellsberg case...
...four-page statement he circulated and gave to management that two of his supervisors "feel within their right to disregard the human rights of employees." He continued: "I have gone out of my way to be consistent, bumble and of good service to the Harvard Dining Halls. So I fail to understand why I deserve such harsh treatment...