Word: failed
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...unwilling to accept the fallacy which permeates Kissinger's analysis of the role of the oil-producing nations in the economic crisis of the industrial West. Kissinger would have us believe that high oil prices are responsible for the chaos of the Western economies, and that if these economies fail it will be because they were "strangled" by the oil producing Arabs. This is false...
...long seemed obvious that it would have been suicidal for such articulate and once influential men as the five defendants to fail to testify in their own defense. Yet Ehrlichman discovered last week, as had the hapless John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman before him, that exposure to the prosecution's cross-examination was equally hazardous. Unlike Mitchell, who stubbornly denied his own participation in the coverup, and Haldeman, who could not seem to recall that there ever was such a conspiracy, Ehrlichman's strategy, in effect, was to contend that he had been "deceived" by former President Nixon...
Like Siriani, Perkins blames the judicial system. "All the legislation in the world will be of no avail unless it's enforced, and the enforcement is extremely poor," he says. "I don't blame the officer on the street for that either." Massachusetts judges too often fail to impose sentences on criminals who have been caught carrying unlicensed handguns, Perkins says...
Narrow Road to the Deep North shares the failings of many of the Loeb's productions. Once again, the imagination and expertise evidenced in the acting and direction fail to equal the high level of the production's technical artistry...
Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson recently ordered a 25% cutback in budget requests from all city departments. New York City is contemplating trimming 1,510 jobs as squabbling officials fail to agree on whether the city's deficit this year will be $430 million or $650 million. Last week the city was forced to sell $600 million in short-term notes at a record 9.47% interest-and that despite the fact that interest on the notes is exempt from federal income...