Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Block the SALT treaty? "We'll fight it to the end," says Howard Phillips, 38, a husky Bostonian who heads one of the ultraconservative groups that are raising millions to oppose ratification. "In the long run we lose only if we fail to fight...
...with Palestinian rights, one of the Israeli delegates, Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir, charged in a volley of diplomatic overkill that Egypt was "endangering the whole current peace process." The Egyptians insisted that they wanted the new resolution as means of bringing the Palestinians into negotiations. If the autonomy talks fail, they contended, a U.N. resolution endorsing Palestinian rights could serve as a fall-back position, a basis for subsequent negotiation. Eventually, the two sides settled down, but in truth the negotiators are merely shadowboxing until Menachim Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hold their next meeting in early September...
...those arguments can be countered. Even if Chrysler were to fail, another company would take over its tank business; the domestic auto industry would remain competitive because Volkswagen is expanding production in the U.S.; other auto manufacturers would enlarge their production-and hire plenty of workers to meet it. Still, the threat of unemployment, even if temporary and spotty, was the decisive point for Administration policymakers in this preelection, recession year...
...somewhat gratuitous to try and pick apart a book that falls apart of its own accord. Lopez is consistent only in his insulting and pretentious tone, strange for one so attached to mother Harvard. Beyond that, the chapters ramble without direction, and often fail adequately to cover their topics. The section on the undergraduate college, for example, is a messy heap of old famous grads, stories about buildings, and nasty quotations from anonymous sources who hate Harvard...
...University Health Services, a nurse told me I had to take the exam anyway and sent me back to Stoughton. By now I was really desperate. I would fail my exams and all that frantic studying would be as useless as the entire first semester. After shivering by myself for an hour, I finally gave in and woke up a friend across the hall who sent me to stand, shaking, under the shower until the exam. I took it in a complete stupor, barely aware of what I was writing. I begged my section leader for mercy, staggered home, slept...