Word: failed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the collapse of the Kemper Arena in Kansas City [June 18], architects should worry about their falling reputations. But structural engineering is not their real shortcoming; it's aesthetic engineering. When buildings fail to dignify man's spirit, his potential, architecture fails to excite us. It becomes boring. As proof we have the modern suburb...
...stolidly read aloud from his sheaf of prepared remarks. He was followed by Carter, who talked from several pages of notes handwritten on yellow legal paper. Among them was a sentence he had noted on hearing Brezhnev utter it the day before: "God will not forgive us if we fail...
...have other gripes about L.E.I.U. Linda Valentino, who has investigated the network for the American Friends Service Committee, points out that L.E.I.U. cards are based on arrest records, with no notation of the disposition of the case; thus a card might state that a subject had been arrested but fail to note that the case against him had been dropped or the person acquitted. Worse, if L.E.I.U. receives a query about someone on whom it has no information, it will automatically start a file on that person...
...federal magistrate last week refused to issue an injunction to halt construction of the 3.2-mile extension of the Red Line subway, indicating that a suit to stop construction until a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is written will fail...
Longtime critics of the jet claim it has more basic problems. They charge that the plane does not have as many redundant or fail-safe systems to handle an emergency as other wide-bodied jets. In particular, they cite the hydraulic systems. The DC-10 has three, whereas the Lockheed TriStar has four and the Boeing 747 has five. The DC-10 places its hydraulic lines along the leading-and more exposed-wing edge, rather than in the trailing edge, where the 747's and Tri-Star's are located. Critics also claim the hydraulic lines under...