Word: failed
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...Christian Democrats and the Communists together represent about 70% of the popular vote. If they fail to find a face-saving compromise, the result could be a general election well in advance of the one scheduled for 1981. Both major parties have publicly declared that they dislike this prospect; privately they may want it. The Christian Democrats, who made encouraging gains in last year's local polling, hope that they could do even better. For their part, the Communists may reckon that an election soon would be preferable to one in 1981, when their popularity might have declined even...
...Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive man from Nazareth, does not tally with the church's catechesis." The Gospel and the church, he preached, must transcend all political ideologies. But while the church's mission is "not social or political," the church "cannot fail to consider man in the entirety of his being." In particular, Christians must seek a "more just and equitable distribution of goods, not only within each nation but also in the world in general...
...proposed bill. "I think the bill is a bunch of baloney anyway," Patrick T. Lyons, general manager and director of public relations at the discotheque Boston-Boston, said yesterday. He added that if legislators hope the bill will get drinking teenagers off the highways, the bill will fail because it will force teenagers to drive to neighboring states where the drinking age is 18 to get liquor...
...spokesman for the Registrar's office said yesterday there is no way of determining how many students fail to gain admission into limited enrollment courses...
UNITED STATES interventionists safaris have failed, and will continue to fail as long as America pursues policies that run counter to the will of the people in countries we seek to influence and do business with. The U.S. can--no more than any native grown dictator--succeed for long if success depends on armed conflict with the populace. And lacking the ability to murder our way to international success, more moderate attempts to buck popular political expressions can only alienate potential friends because of the basic anti-democratic, immoral tenor of such policies...