Word: failed
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...employed a combination of legal expertise and an aggressive and intimidating bargaining style to either deflect or squelch labor discontent. Harvard's experienced legal staff delayed organizing efforts in the Medical Area and at Harvard's teaching hospitals with a long series of court battles. When delaying tactics fail, the University often resorts to subtle intimidation, perfectly legal, of course. In the case of organizing efforts at the teaching hospitals, Harvard filed a lawsuit against the director of the union, accusing him of assault--a charge the judge later threw out of court. When Harvard's Buildings and Grounds maintenance...
...much by the flowery romanticism of the song as by the Fawn's weird behavior upon discovering that Alice is a human child. He runs off stage acting as if he were trying to keep himself from commiting an unnatural act, and only the most jaded could fail to be repelled by the whole scene. The same bizarre love interest insinuates itself in the White Knight's song, perhaps as a suggestion that Carroll, equated with the Knight in the program notes, was himself a closet pederast...
...duty of the U.S. Government to indemnify its citizens fully for the amount of their pain, suffering, financial loss and legal expenses. No government worth its salt can fail to protect its citizens' rights in cases where there are disputes with foreigners...
When known counseling methods fail, the child should be taken from its parents. With a rueful laugh Belisle recalls that when his own daughter was in first grade and the teacher asked what her father did, she replied, "My daddy swipes kids." Separating child from family is always a horrifying and legally difficult matter. "It's like being a member of the Gestapo," says Belisle. "As bad as you know the parents are, there they stand, in the doorway, screaming 'I love my child.' The neighbors gather, whispering and pointing. The mother starts calling you four-letter...
...much attention at all. His retiring manner earned him the nickname "the taupe" (the mole) from Lytton Strachey. Writing his mother about a projected meeting with Henry James, the young author was comically unassuming: "I hear he likes people to be handsome and well dressed, so I shall fail all round." He even construed his repressions as an example of good manners: "However gross my desires, I find I shall never satisfy them for the fear of annoying others...