Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fail." So posits one of the venerable Salada tea bags that have guided many through this herky-jerky four-year escapade. I'd always laughed at its more-jaded-than-thou outlook. After my oral exams, Salad's wise man is the one doing the snickering...
...learned later from an insider that I'd actually failed my orals, though I'm not supposed to know this. Children, for god's sake, don't doubt your elders. I may be the first Harvard student to get two summa readings and a prize for a separate essay and yet fail his orals. I'm still graduating honors, but not before being forced to realize what a flop I'll be at cocktail parties. As of now I'm unemployed, but I think I have a future writing Salada tea bags...
That is unlikely. The Prime Minister's austerity policies, and her determination not to compromise them even in the face of deep suffering in the work force, may be liabilities at the polls next month. But they pale in comparison with Foot's fail ure to control the left wing of his party and his unwillingness to step down in favor of the more popular and dynamic Healey. Wrote London Sunday Times Political Editor Hugo Young: "About Labor there is the stench of something close to death. The rot of self-doubt, even of self-ridicule...
...black students at a newly desegregated Alabama high school in 1965, Delores Boyd gave a lot of thought to the civil rights movement and her place in it: "I had a sense that the law had a very significant role in whether the movement would fail or succeed." The daughter of a subsistence farmer whose eight children all went to college, she was no star at the University of Virginia Law School. "But I survived and I learned," says Boyd...
...nuclear power industry has suffered many setbacks, one of the worst being the accident at Three Mile Island. But none is potentially more costly than the financial tragedy unfolding in Washington State. Next week the Washington Public Power Supply System is expected to fail to make a $15.6 million monthly debt-service payment to Chemical Bank on bonds worth $2.25 billion. The securities were issued starting in 1976 to pay for two nuclear power plants that have already been scrapped. A default would likely endanger completion of three other unfinished WPPSS plants on which $6.1 billion is owed. Moreover...