Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic cases are not the only relevant ones. If a bank loses it database of accounts and names it will fail. If a company loses accurate track of its inventory and accounts receivable data is goes out of business. Terrorists can do severe damage to the nation by destroying several vital computers simultaneously. The Italian Department of Motor Vehicles, for example, still isn't sure who holds a drivers license as legal identification in Italy because its central database files were blown up anti government bombers in the late 1970s. A company near San Francisco lost $100,000 last year...
...blithe abandon, then withdraw it practically at will. The present law, passed in 1970, calls for a bank to notify federal authorities whenever a deposit exceeds $10,000. The law, though, has often been ineffective, in part because of wrist-slapping fines of only $1,000 against banks that fail to report the large deposits...
...made it sound like the course might not be offered pass-fail anymore," said one scared senior...
Dear voter, don't fail...
...seems to have reserved the actors' energy for the latter half of the play, many of the early performances are restrained. With the exception of one mildly emotive scene between Fifty and a widow burying her child, and one comic interlude between two age-obsessed gossips, the early scenes fail to win the audience's sympathy...