Word: failed
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...grieved. The sudden deaths of five Harvard undergraduates this year--two of them apparent suicides--have forced the University community to come to grips with the painful implications of such losses. While we cannot hope fully to know or understand the causes of these deaths, we should not fail to reflect on their bearing on our own lives...
...agrarian reforms are a failure, and they are being made to fail by corruption and debt. Let the Reagan Administration say it's a success. They 're liars...
...sense of fatalism, of something preordained. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the 82nd Airborne, felt it no less strongly. "Sometimes, at night," he recalled, "it was almost as if I could hear the assurance that God the Father gave to another soldier, named Joshua: 'I will not fail thee nor forsake thee...
...most visible trouble spot was Continental Illinois, the seventh-largest U.S. bank. Aggressive lending to energy firms and other ailing borrowers has filled its books with $2.3 billion in sour loans. After rumors that the bank was about to fail led to a run on the Chicago lender, Morgan Guaranty and 15 other big banks last week rushed to Continental's rescue with a $4.5 billion line of credit, the largest ever for an American bank. Its goal: to help avert what threatened to become the biggest collapse in U.S. banking history...
...attacking the state's case at the guilt phase," he says, "but they're incapable of presenting an affirmative case for life at the sentencing phase." They often have neither the temperament nor the resources for such a task, and in his view many attorneys who fail to dig deeply enough will not be caught by the court's new test...