Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...migrants from their wages do not contribute substantially to reducing the balance of trade deficits of their home countries: these deficits rise at the same rate as do wages. And when migrant workers return with funds accumulated abroad, they tend to invest them unproductively, in small businesses that fail and in consumer goods that the country can ill afford. Most importantly, however, migratory labor relieves western European capital of any need to invest in the economies of underdeveloped countries by enabling it to attract the cream of their labor force to work in the developed countries themselves...
During their confrontation outside the prison gates, Mary accuses Elizabeth of hiding her sins behind "the false show of a virtuous-seeming face." Mary Stuart's sins--its slow pace and weak male leads--are right out in the open, but they fail to obscure the queenly virtue which illuminates the show...
...said other democratization efforts in Mediterranean countries--Greece, Portugal, and Spain--would probably fail...
...legislation, from the lowliest procedural change to momentous acts that affect the lives of tens of thousands--acts like rent control extension--must be reviewed by Kelly's committee and discharged by it before the Senate can act. If attempts to get a bill out of the committee fail, then the Senate never votes on it, the governor never gets it on his desk, and the bill never becomes law. Worse yet, when a law nears the end of its legislative life, as rent control is doing now, bottling it up in committee is the same as putting...
...print one at all-seem to run off only enough copies for the author and his immediate family. Which is just as well, since none but the most cavernous bookstores bother much about making shelf space for debuts. The self-fulfilling prophecy is then in full operation: the books fail to sell, and no one is surprised...