Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsequently wrote a statement to the Mt. Holyoke security services, and said she is prepared to make her complaint official should security fail to do anything. Though charging an officer with harassment would impose the burden of proof on Fox, she added. "I have the support of a lot of people, a lot of witnesses...
...initial tensions fail to build, and Tremblay doesn't deepen his characterizations. Serge's sisters just eat, drink, cry, and beseech Serge more and more: help me, be near me, move in with me. The stasis is partly Tremblay's way of showing how rutted the family is; Serge recognizes the pattern and shouts to Lucienne "How many times have we been through this routine...
...doctors at a Harvard-affiliated hospital received a $1.7 million federal grant this fail to study the effects of alcohol on female hormones as a follow up on two similar studies on men and laboratory animals...
...quote John Goodlad's excellent book A Place Called School to the effect that curricular changes concerning subject-matter instruction will fail "if not accompanied by substantial improvements in pedagogy." Goodlad points out that over 70% of instructional time is devoted to "talk" by teachers that reduces students to a state of bored passivity...
...point out that the negotiators routinely take a Christmas-New Year's recess, and expect the Soviets to extend the break for several months. That will give the Soviets time to assess West European reaction and begin their counterdeployments before returning to the bargaining table. If the Soviets fail to resume the talks, their intransigence could backfire by uniting Western opinion behind NATO...