Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortuitous assistance of favorable weather patterns during the last growing season, India enjoyed the best grain harvest in its history last year. Farmers managed to amass a reserve supply of 17 million tons of grain--hefty insurance against future famines that will continue to afflict India whenever the monsoons fail again...
Bedau also noted the movement's need for backing by political leaders, saying that "there are a thousand ways to fail at getting legislation enacted if the political powers that be are against...
...University has not conducted a study of those students who fail to return, Paul B. Segel'71, a research assistant who works in University Hall, said yesterday. There is a small number of such students and they are hard to locate, Segel added...
...that it glorified Harvard's history of African studies, maintaining that "African studies has had the advantage of satisfactory and congenial growth within established disciplines." Rosovsky makes a tremendous effort to detail all the research and curricular offerings of the school in African studies, but all his efforts fail to conceal several facts. No African languages were taught at Harvard at that time, despite all their reputable African anthropologists (did they use interpreters?). There were few courses dealing specifically with Africa; those few were offered primarily in Anthropology, some in Government, and a few in Education and Social Relations...
...paralyzed efforts to transfer power peacefully from Rhodesia's 271,000 whites to its 6.2 million blacks. Skirmishes between Rhodesian forces and black Nationalist guerrillas are now taking more than 300 black and white lives each month, and all-out racial war is a real danger if negotiations fail. Thus Richard's shuttle has been dubbed by some officials and journalists in southern Africa a safari of salvation...