Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words, aimed for the palace and got drowned in the sewer. Haunted by the specter of success looming before him, his mind concocts a thousand fool-proof schemes by which the carrot shall be his, while his body stands rooted in paralytic fear lest he should try and fail, or worse yet, succeed, only to taste the paltry fare we call success. Around him is his family, whose empty stomachs have been nurtured on his unsubstantial dreams, and face him now with all the weary pain of the underfed--at once so cynical and so susceptible to one more crumb...
...growing signs in Congress that this strategy is losing ground. A move in the House among supporters of the President to convert the impeachment vote to a motion of censure-thereby allowing them to vote against Nixon without alienating many voters who still back him-is also likely to fail...
...N.F.L. owners, of course, fail to see the analogy. Instead, they envision chaos in an open market. "If we do what the players want," says Pittsburgh Steeler Owner Dan Rooney, "500 to 800 guys would change teams every year. What happens to fan loyalty?" Others worry about competitive balance. "The rich teams would dominate," says Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. "You can't run a competitive league that...
...state legislatures? Said Justice John Harlan: "This [majority] view, in a nutshell, is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle,' and that this court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches of government fail to act." Yale's Professor Alexander Bickel complained that the court "seems to lack a sense of the limitations of the institution...
Publicly discussing this fresh and ambitious approach, Kissinger conveyed his fears of the consequences should these negotiations fail. The two superpowers, the Secretary warned, would continue building more and more weapons of such sophistication and power that the old worries about who was ahead of whom would become meaningless. Each side could end up with 10,000 warheads. "What in the name of God is 'strategic superiority' at those levels?" he asked. With no agreement, Kissinger declared, "We will be living in a world that will be extraordinarily complex, in which opportunities for nuclear warfare will exist that...