Word: failed
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...idea is not to pass or fail people," says Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Andrew M. Gleason, who chairs the QRR committee. "It's to get them to deal with quantitative methods. This has not happened as well as it should have...
...report has met with unexpected opposition from both HRAAA and other overseers. Discussion of the report has been tabled twice, as the University refuses to have it come to a vote lest it fail...
Pauley said that many Americans fail to realize the extent that careers compromise their ability to raise children. Pauley noted that in some schools in New York, there are after-school programs to help children with their homework...
...threaten to replace a case study in the failure of the health care system with a case study in the failure of the political system. Expanding prenatal care through the means-tested Medicaid program would reinforce a second-class health care system for the poor--one which may often fail to deliver needed services...
...Japanese are dismayed that politicians in Washington and many U.S. businessmen brand Japan as "protectionist" whenever some products fail to sell in Japan, even though the market is opening up. U.S. sales of telecommunications equipment in Japan, for example, reached $263.3 million last year, up from $106 million in 1985. Yet the U.S. is basing its current trade complaints at least partly on the problems Motorola has faced in getting frequency clearance in Tokyo for the cellular telephones it is selling in Japan; Tokyo considers the grievance too small to justify the hubbub surrounding it. Observes Peter Tasker, British author...