Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approval of Israel's Knesset. Debate begins early this week and is expected to last for a few days. Although rhetorical fireworks are anticipated and Begin is certain to come under blistering attack from the ultra-left and ultraright, there is almost no chance that the measure will fail. The opposition Labor Party leader, Shimon Peres, has already indicated that he will support the treaty, even though by voting against it he might be able to topple Begin's government. Said Peres: "Peace comes before power, and I would prefer to see a peace with mistakes rather than the removal...
Meantime, something parallel is happening to Technocrat Lemmon. He has always been a believer not only in nuclear power but also in the elaborate Fail-Safe system that makes its peaceful use feasible. Now, however, his superiors push him a little too hard to get the disabled plant back on line faster than he thinks it should be. He also discovers that the contractors who built the plant have falsified vital safety certificates. But even as he's getting on to them, they're getting on to him−no way anyone's going to let fraudulent...
...business; dealers are permitted markups based on their margins in 1973. But the formulas are complex, the nation's 250,000 service stations are tough to police, and many owners are marking their gas up to levels well above their individual federal ceilings. Fines for those gougers who fail to post prices properly are as high as $10,000 per day for each violation, but last year only about a dozen operators throughout the country were penalized by the Department of Energy...
...invention of the compass. In some ways, as Humorist Russell Baker recently observed, the happyologists resemble sociologists in their dedication to proving what everybody has known all along. Baker groaned at the supposedly big discovery that an unhappy childhood does not necessarily lead to an unhappy adulthood. Who could fail to echo his groan when it is reported, as though it were news, that money, beyond some uncertain minimum, does not buy happiness? A horselaugh might even be the appropriate response when Psychoanalyst Gaylin declares: "It is... good to 'feel good...
...early discoveries are that breathtaking, although many of them come in similar statistical form. Findings may vary from survey to survey, but seldom astonishingly. Some results that fail to amaze can still be heartening. Most studies so far confirm that happiness does not depend on any single factor. That is, neither geographical location nor financial status nor age is a determinant of happiness. The happy are slightly more likely to be married, but unhappiness is anything but epidemic among the single. Neither the young, the middle-aged nor the old have any special claim on happiness...