Word: failed
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...wonder if America is "ready" for a woman Vice President. That is not the question. This nation is always ready for the ablest candidate, male or female. Women, however, have apparently failed to exhibit the required qualities. Your report makes it evident that women will fail again. The question is not when will America be ready for a female Vice President but, rather, when will a woman be ready for the vice presidency...
...Harvard Corporation engages in "intensive dialogue" with companies and will divest only if they refuse to adopt the Sullivan Principles, if persistent efforts to persuade them to adopt the principles fail, and if there is no hope for improvement in work place conditions...
...Radcliffe guidelines also require the College to divest from companies which fail to meet the new investment requirements, generally one year after Radcliffe first questions the companies about their treatment of South African Blacks, said Elizabeth Heffernan, chair of the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility...
Finally, there is the "sleaze factor": Mondale aides claim that the Reaganauts have shown disregard for propriety, if not the rule of law. More than 30 Reagan appointees have been investigated for one thing or another. In sum, the Mondale staff depicts an incumbent who, while his policies fail and his aides retain counsel, obliviously floats along, taking afternoon naps and leafing through old Reader's Digests for speech ideas. Reagan, Mondale told TIME last week, "is looking at the world through Rose Garden-colored glasses. For him to say that it's a safer world, that interest...
...strength is a wild anecdotal inventiveness, but her people, lost in the ramshackle dreams and tumble-down ambitions with which she in vests them, often seem to be metaphors waywardly adrift. They are blown this way and that by the gales of laughter they provoke, and they frequently fail to find a solid connection with clear and generally relevant meaning...