Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season, the squad defeated Western New England, 31-9, and Coast Guard, 26-18, but fail to East Stroudsburg State...
...that, there are definite limits to the enthusiasm for things American. Stepping up enforcement of laws dating back to 1966 that forbid the use of foreign phrases in advertisements, a special commissioner's office has been handing out fines of up to $700 to firms that fail to translate American words like hamburger (bifteck hache) and show biz (industrie du spectacle). Officials are busy coining replacements for such computer terms as hardware (materiel) and software (logiciel). While the language may be under assault, French pride--and what would France be without it?--remains / indestructible. "We find it hard to admit...
...Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. But traditionally, a simple bone graft taken from the fibula or from any of several bones in cadavers can be used to repair only a small area. In cases like Labollita's, where the gap was more than 3 in. long, ordinary bone grafts fail for lack of an adequate blood supply to nourish them. Amputation may then become necessary...
...first week of classes are cancelled when record red-dotting--a full two-thirds of the student body fail to meet tuition payments--plays havoc with normally well oiled registration machinery. Holyoke Center officials attribute the unprecedented number of late payments to steeper tuition costs and "the spirit of lawlessness rampant among this country's young...
...moved the company's headquarters to Washington, for he knew that the battle would be primarily a matter of lobbying. "I didn't concern myself with the technology, just the regulation of the industry," he says. His own managerial style is fairly deregulated. He hates paperwork. "Most entrepreneurs fail, after they first succeed, because they can't really delegate responsibility," he says. "I'm always on the lookout against people who try to foist the authority for a decision back...