Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lebanese talks fail, and Reagan decides against missile sales to Jordan...
...first 15 minutes--so much so, in fact, that the audience finds itself anticipating the characters' actions well in advance of their execution. And though some of the performances are surprisingly quite professional in spite of most of the actors youth and limited experience, the performers with few exceptions fail to transcend their stereotyped role...
Even the most cursory glance at the faculty register reveals that leftist academics by no means saturate the University. For every "unremitting pacifist" and "self-avowed Marxist" that the conservatives name they fail to mention the Government professors who, in the recent past, have gone on record as opposing affirmative action, supporting the invasion of Grenada, and maintaining that authoritarian regimes may be the most suited for the tasks of Third World development. Perhaps the leaflet should also have stated that the Economics department carries only two Marxists, who themselves once had good reason to fear that their convictions would...
Many pledges, and especially the largest gifts, are paid back in installments over five-year periods, and Jordan says Dartmouth found that up to four percent of donors--but not necessarily four percent of the total pledges-will fail to honortheir pledges, either because they pass away, see the value of securities pledged to the University drop, or "get mad at the institution because it rejected their son or daughter or whatever and say. 'The hall with this...
...which their safety as well as ours depends. For a son of Europe reared on the existing NATO orthodoxy, the very idea of even a partial redeployment is painful?all the more so after Lebanon. But we will not be fulfilling our obligations to the West if we fail to put forward an initiative to forestall the crisis that will otherwise confront us in much worse circumstances...