Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed that this year would fail into the same initial rejection pattern. Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received an internationally publicized invitation but was unable to accept. Instead, he offered a text, selections of which President Bok read at the June 9 ceremonies And as a result, the official address was delivered by Mexican writer ambassador Carlos Fuentes...
...Does psychotherapy work?" cannot be answered scientifically, and it is no wonder that the responses presented in your story showed mixed results. I hope that the parents of an anorectic daughter or a profoundly depressed and suicidal individual do not use your article to fuel their ambivalence and thus fail to seek psychological or psychiatric treatment...
...class life for his family-three color television sets, two freezers and two cars-by putting in long days as a $4.75-an-hour dishwasher. "Anybody can do my job," he says. "But the difference is this: I come to work every day. Americans who take the job often fail to show up for work because they don't really want the job." For marginal businesses, economists say, cheap immigrant help can make the difference between surviving or failing...
...Human Sexual Inadequacy. Published in 1970, the book revolutionized the fledgling discipline of sexual therapy with its unprecedented clinical prescriptions for treating frigidity, impotence and premature ejaculation. Faultfinders contend that both Human Sexual Inadequacy and a subsequent Masters and Johnson study of homosexuality are marred by vague language and fail to provide basic criteria and measures to assess the actual number of patient failures and relapses. In cases of low sexual desire, for example, M & J report a "nonfailure" rate of 80% without explaining precisely what that means. By contrast, other sexual therapists report a success rate of less than...
...have to succeed at everything to be a success any more than you have to fail everything to be a miserable failure," he quipped...