Word: failed
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...process never ends. Again and again in her or his life the child must learn first to see and then to admire the Emperor's elegant new clothes. (Only the "insane" fail...
...really doubtful, though, that the Dartmouth fans, obnoxious at best and cry-babyish the rest of the time, have any equals. Anywhere. They simply fail to realize that while triumphs over the Crimson might cause hysteria in Hanover, losses to the Big Green hardly cause a ripple around Tommy's Lunch...
...Fail to Save. Since the Supreme Court has specifically endorsed the death penalty in only these three states, the capital punishment laws of 31 others are still in dispute. The court has struck down laws that rigidly apply the death sentence for specific offenses. Instead, it has approved only those statutes under which judges or juries get adequate information about each individual and his offense to use in making the life-or-death sentence decision. "The mood around here is pessimistic determination," says David Ken dall, who supervises the L.D.F. battle, "but we'll go on defending our indi...
That is why the code's nine-member review board convenes periodically to examine the ad guidelines as it did last week in Phoenix. Among arguments they heard was a plea from Playtex that ads showing brassieres floating through space or worn over a model's leotard fail to communicate their virtues adequately. Playtex had tested one of the show-it-like-it-is bra commercials that it runs in Europe on U.S. TV recently, and assured the board that the ad was calmly received. But the members, evidently lacking the common denominator for such a sweeping change...
...Salisbury may have bought Pretoria's whites sometime, as Vorster plainly hopes, but it may also have presented him with a time limit. It is conceivable that Vorster and his fellow Afrikaners have just two good years in which to set their besieged house in order. If they fail to do so, they may one day discover, as Ian Douglas Smith and his colleagues recently did, that events can simply brush them aside...