Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would say that there is an understanding with the countries with whom we are trying to work. It is my very strong feeling that if the conference fails because of the intransigence and extremism of the blacks, then we can only come out of this in a better and stronger position. I can't give you details, but from my assessment, after all we've been through, I believe we will get greater cooperation, greater support. But I should perhaps add this point: if we fail here, I would go straight back to Rhodesia in an attempt...
...these labels and appellations do nothing more than reinforce the historic assumption of minority deficiency and strengthen the expectation that oppressed people will fail. Those assumptions and expectations are not new, but have been long ingrained in the hearts and minds of the white majority and have ben instilled in the psyches of minority groups. The ante-bellum Black Codes, for instance, systematically directed and demanded the infliction of a feeling of inferiority on all Black people in America. And later, the Dred Scott v. Sanford and Plessy v. Ferguson decisions refined and confirmed the white man's right...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life yesterday voted to fine students one-quarter of one semester's room rent--approximately $150--if they fail to inform the College of their intention to take a leave of absence before August 20, the date when the first term bill...
...housing project on Chicago's tough West Side, used to resemble a way station to nowhere. Two years ago, sixth-graders were reading at an average of two full years below their grade level. Says Chicago's District 9 school superintendent Albert Briggs: "They were programmed to fail when they got to high school...
...cornflakes or using toothpaste makes us age fast," he says, "we would now have no way of knowing this." What would it cost to develop techniques to slow aging in humans? On a reasonable guess, "one-fifth the cost of the Soyuz space circus plus some time. It might fail (so might the moon landing have done) but it probably will not. What we need to decide is whether we want...