Word: failed
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...severest test since the Depression, and its recovery to robust health more than ever rests on discipline and patience and a finely tuned balance between needs of public and private sectors. Speaking of the crusade against the self-destructive force of inflation, Okun said: "I think if we fail, that is the end of this kind of a system...
Graduate students who fail to pay tuition--people referred to as "ghosts" by GSAS administrators--learned earlier this week that the graduate school is considering a new tuition plan designed to halt this common practice...
...issues that PWRM raised in 1970 remain. South Africa is a police regime that has by law excluded the indigenous people of its land from the basics of survival. The average arrest rate of Africans for passbook violations is over 3,000 per day; the violator is subject to fail, fines, and/or whipping with no trial. The average monthly wage for an African is 7 rand ($9.80). South Africa has the world's largest hanging rate, with 118 executed in 1968 alone. The passbook has been called the pillar of apartheid, the main tool with which the white-ruling clique...
...imagination...with various incongruous elements of history from which our lives are built." Museum objects include documents, photographs, portraits, cartoons, murals, uniforms, flags, weapons, table services, Bibles, furniture, cars, coins, ship models, and gifts to the Trumans from all over the world. Incongruous indeed! A visitor can hardly fail to find at least one link to his own experience...
Slow Motion. To announce that Something Happened is a terrific letdown is only to make the obvious comment on publicized great expectations. But how exactly does it fail? To try to answer that question is to get into certain kinds of bankruptcy that have to do not only with American lives but also with the novels that struggle to record them...