Word: failed
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...Wolfman Jack College of Elocution, altogether appearing more fit to push a broom than a pencil. Nolte is supposedly the best teacher at JFK, and that is just the beginning of the school's problems. JFK is so bad that it is being sued by a former student for failing to fail him, and it has hired the best-looking legal help money can buy in the form of JoBeth Williams. Williams is also a grad of JFK who believes the suit will reform the unreformable...
...steady flow of PC repairs has slowed down in the last week. Galvin said, but first-year MBA candidate Maury A. Peiperl said he and about 40 other students have computers that fail to read the disk right after it is put in the drive...
Discussing what he would do if his proposed negotiations with the Sandinistas should fail and Nicaragua continued to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors, Mondale gave a startling answer that kept him and his aides backpedaling furiously for much of the week. The candidate first said he would "continue to interdict" and would apply pressure through European allies and the Contadora countries (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela), measures that he had previously mentioned...
...White House is also ready to prevent Reagan from being damaged by a display of recalcitrance on Moscow's part. Should the talks fail, says a White House aide, "the President will have tried his best, and we'll stress that fact. It takes two to make a deal. The people know that." Only if Reagan comes across as the uncooperative negotiator would he be likely to suffer in voter esteem, and his stage manager's role as host of the meeting should enable him to prevent that negative impression...
...World's Fair fail so abysmally? Some blame a poor marketing strategy, others the $15 admission price. It may also be that the attraction of the onetime, small-scale exposition is over, outmoded by well-promoted, futuristic extravaganzas like Walt Disney's Epcot Center in central Florida. Or, as some soured Louisianans observed, it could be that the Knoxville World's Fair of two years ago, though financially successful, was so boring it discouraged people from going to New Orleans...