Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing of this historic chapter," Allende said in his final broadcast, "I will pay with my life for the loyalty of the people. And I say to you, they have the strength, but they will fail, because they cannot stop the social process with crimes or with force. History is ours, it is made by the people." Allende, Charles Horman, and more than 50,000 Chileans have paid with their lives for their dream of a better world. The people who made Avenue of the Americas and It's Raining in Santiago share that dream--a dream of a wealthy...
...program is heavy on philosophy, light on detail and shows signs of hasty assembly. The opening sentence reads: "No one should mistake the energy problem for what it is-a fundamental crisis that threatens Americans and America's way of life." (The drafters meant "fail to recognize...
...executing a major reorganization, made it so profitable that it was bought by the German conglomerate August Thyssen-Hütte. He was enticed to Volkswagen by the challenge. Recalls Schmücker: "It was more than just Volkswagen at stake. I felt that if this company were to fail, in a sense our entire system would...
...what does the nation?and history?profit from this uniquely modern electronic means of eliciting a personal accounting from a discredited President? Certainly, after viewing the series, millions will be forcefully reminded of the high personal price Nixon has paid. Yet he is destined to fail in these interviews to persuade any but his partisan followers that his Watergate lies and, yes, crimes, were the result of mere failures of judgment. If these same televised questions and answers could somehow have been transformed into a court of law, any reasonable jury would almost certainly have found Nixon guilty of participating...
...balance of Does Anybody Give a Damn? is concerned with evidence that schools are "failing." As Hentoff points out, 23 per cent of all students in American public schools fail to graduate from high school, while 43 per cent of all elementary school children are in critical need of reading help. In central Harlem, 87 per cent of elementary and junior high school students fail the standardized reading tests. But this book is neither apocalyptic nor despairing. Hentoff says, "My main interest all along in writing about education has been finding ways in which certain schools can and do work...