Word: failed
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...increased until they reach the required minimum of an average 20 m.p.g. on the range of autos that a manufacturer offers the public in 1980. The Administration will not ask for mandatory legislation, since automotive executives agreed to meet the goal at a recent meeting in Washington. If they fail to comply, however, the White House is expected to ask Congress to enact a law requiring the minimum mileage. In return for their cooperation, the Administration will ask Congress to grant the auto companies an extension of the deadline, from 1977 to 1981, for further purification of exhaust emissions?perhaps...
...more precise and comprehensive index. Readers are rarely told of the lag of at least six months before Government fiscal or monetary measures begin to nudge the economy. Journalists who write of widespread demands for the President to take dramatic steps now to end the recession generally fail to mention that those steps could not bring any results before late...
Schroder drags on her cigarette and leans forward, looking deadly serious. "It won't fail," she says. "It just won't. We have all the time in the world. We just can't fail. I just don't believe people can reject something that will make them happy. There's no way about...
...kill its victim. In a chicken-and-egg situation, high blood pressure can also trigger complex mechanisms that will reduce blood flow to the kidneys. That, in turn, reduces the capacity of the kidneys to help rid the body of its waste material, and the kidneys themselves may eventually fail...
Despite these encouraging advances, many hypertensives still fail to get treatment. Either their condition is not diagnosed, or their doctors do not realize the importance of mildly elevated blood pressure. Others, bored by the drug regimen and lulled into a sense of false security by a lack of symptoms, drop out of treatment programs. Such lapses can be lethal. Dr. Freis once treated a young, dangerously hypertensive law student by putting him on diuretics but could not induce him to continue with the medication. The patient died of a stroke at 29. Other dropouts have been more fortunate. Helga Brown...