Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally ready to move determinedly against U.S. inflation, which recently hit an annual rate of 10%. Said Carter to a Wall Street crowd, as he stood later in the week beneath a bronze statue of George Washington outside Federal Hall: "I mean business. I do not intend to fail and I will not fail...
...twelve cities on Sept. 8. One inhibiting factor may be the top echelon's doubt that rank-and-file troops would support their commanders if ordered to attack protesters with bullets and bayonets. Moreover, "shooting Iran into political silence," as one Tehran newspaper put it, would probably fail. Many Western experts believe that the Shah's only hope of calming the unrest is to step aside in favor...
...movies after Rocky, Sylvester Stallone is down but not out. His new film is not the comeback picture that Stallone needs to recover fully from the debacle of F.I.S.T., but neither is it a complete fail ure. At times Paradise Alley looks like a catastrophe: it is often crudely made, badly acted and unwittingly ridiculous. Yet the film doesn't chase the audience out of the theater, as F.I.S.T. did. Just when the going gets roughest, this crazy movie springs into idiosyncratic, if fleeting life...
Muller said the faculty has been considering many of the alumni's suggestions for improving student conditions at the Law School, citing the student-faculty committee to examine pass-fail grading...
However, Reiman called the pass-fail student-faculty committee "farcical" because, he said, it voted down the pass-fail option this year at a meeting where two of the three student members could not--by committee regulations--be present...