Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensitivity training is a symptom of the problem, not the solution. The answer, he believes, lies in reaffirming the importance of the family and in caring for friends and neighbors. Says he: "Simply put, there is a biological basis for our need to form human relationships. If we fail to fulfill that need, our health is in peril." It is a traditional nostrum that Poet W.H. Auden put better: "We must love one another...
...provision of the new treaty calls for a "feasibility study" for a second canal, but it is generally agreed that the cost would be prohibitive. Still, there is no reason to assume that Panamanians will fail to run the canal properly. They have ample time to learn on the job. And, of course, the U.S. retains the right to intervene if the canal runs into serious trouble...
...first place as a throwaway to give Congress something to kill. Also the President could not sell the House on giving him power to order factories to switch from oil or natural gas to coal as fuel-but the House did enact a special tax on plants that fail to make the switch...
...probably closer to war than when he came to power. This week Secretary of State Cyrus Vance departs for a ten-day swing through Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Israel. He was not optimistic as he left Washington, and there is growing apprehension that the Administration will fail to make good on Carter's vow to move significantly closer to peace "this year...
...streets wearing a dunce cap, and dispatched to seven years in disgrace. In 1973 Teng made his first surprising reappearance, at a banquet in Peking. He soon became Vice Premier and the closest collaborator and heir presumptive of Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou's health had begun to fail, Teng headed a delegation to the United Nations in 1974-a hint that he might take over the Premier's role as China's main negotiator with foreign leaders...