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Word: failed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fabric manufacturers. But it is also a source of problems for the women who wear them. As any man knows, pants get caught in bicycle chains. They bag at the knees, wrinkle in the rain and flap in the wind. Their cuffs collect water, dirt and lint. Their zippers fail. Pants also excite dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING 1969: Lifestyles: The Whole Earth Catalogue | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Jackson becomes the candidate the media is portraying, he will fail to grab the real opportunity for Blacks in 1984. This is not the time for Blacks to run their own candidate--the days are past when "Black Power" was the only way. What will help the mass of poor Blacks more is a movement of all the poor combined with the political left, which Blacks will dominate--through sheer numbers--but not control. Radicals such as Francis Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward predict such a realignment of politics among class lines if only the left follows...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: A Leader for the Future | 10/1/1983 | See Source »

...poll, analysts say, for the first time raises the possibility that Finnegan--long considered a shoo-in for the final--may finish third and fail to make the runoff. The former School Committee chairman and WBZ-radio talk show host has been hurt because many voters feel his campaign lacks substance...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Picture Clears in Boston Mayor's Race | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

...Carter, collected their journals and wrote the final account, which is being published this month by Harper & Row. Says Boyer: "This report on the American high school begins with the conviction that the time for renewing education has arrived. If we do not seize this special moment, we will fail the coming generation and the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Try Harder | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...graded Core courses. For example, to fulfill your Humanities requirement, you can take English 101a full-year courses. This constitutes two half-courses, both taken for a grade. If you now decide to take a Core course to finish off the Gen Ed requirement, you can take it pass fail...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: The Core Truth | 9/23/1983 | See Source »

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