Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without energy conservation and production of other more plentiful energy sources such as coal, the nation faces the constant risk of embargoes, increased unemployment and the jeopardization of U.S. sovereignty, Carter said. He added that "If we fail to act, we will soon face an economic, social, political crisis that will threaten our free institutions...
...from a strictly critical standpoint, Rudolph has effectively invited comparisons with his famous mentor that would seem to place his first major work at an almost fatal disadvantage. Yet Welcome to L.A. still manages to equal and even surpass Nashville in some respects, and facile comparisons with Altman fail to ruffle Rudolph, which may be itself the most convincing testimony to the consummate artistry of the film...
After the meeting, Carter pulls Glenn aside for a private chat. "I really need your help on this tax rebate thing," the President says. "The whole economic-stimulus package is going to fail if we go ahead piecemeal and provide benefits for business and then ignore the working people." Glenn's response is noncommittal. Carter thanks him anyway, then rushes into the Oval Office for the day's most publicized activity: signing the bill giving him most of the authority he sought in order to begin reorganizing the federal bureaucracy...
...last-the real truth about Watergate! Richard Nixon had this unconscious "need to fail," you see, which stemmed from guilt over his boyhood "sexual yearning for his mother." The forbidden Oedipal urge required punishment, and with a man as competitive as Nixon, failure was the worst possible penalty. So Nixon punished himself by "arranging his own failures" and became "his own executioner...
Laboratories can be designed to prevent the escape of potentially dangerous organisms. But there is always the chance that something or someone will fail-and that a few virulent bugs will slip through the safeguards to multiply in the outside world. Faced with this problem at the Asilomar conference. Geneticist Roy Curtiss III proposed an ingenious solution: Why not convert the standard genetic research organism, a strain of the E. coli bacterium, into a seriously weakened mutant variety that would quickly self-destruct if it escaped the laboratory? Curtiss volunteered to engineer the new bug, and his colleagues agreed...