Word: failed
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...Hassner, of France's National Foundation of Political Science, added, "I cannot help a feeling of déjà vu when you [Americans] talk about the dangers of leaving the region. It is what we said about Algeria and what you said about Viet Nam. You always fail to appreciate the basic problem, which is domestic change. You are in a no-win situation. It would be better to cut your losses and obtain, as you did in Cuba, a guarantee that there will be no Soviet bases there to be used against you. But you cannot prevent...
...aptly described as "international dyslexia, where we have a disconnect of various components of policy." The West, said Brock, must act to "reduce barriers to trade and reinforce growth. That requires a substantial improvement of communication and coordination of policy." Achieving that will be difficult, yet if the allies fail to do so, Hormats pointed out, "the deterioration of economic cooperation within the West will almost certainly weaken the alliance...
What white voters, in cities like Chicago, who entertain racist phobia toward Afro-American candidates fail to recognize is that their paranoid style political preferences are not fixed habits for all white voters and can be checkmuted when Blacks are galvanized to turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough...
...nevertheless plugs away with surprising spirit and energy. Less, unfortunately, can be said for other aspects of the production. The band consistently falters on the Carole King score, while the disjointed intrusions of motherly presence via large video monitors (with sequences by Melanie McDermott, Alison Taylor, and Ruth Mieszkuc) fail to achieve any immediacy at all. But such flaws of execution remain secondary in a show which so clearly should never have been attempted. The Sendak mystique for children is in many ways analogous to the grown-up vogue of Edward Gorey--the charm lies in the ascendancy of nonsense...
Stations receive anywhere from a handful to more than 200 calls about each child. Many of the callers prove to be unqualified or fail to follow through. Even when the interest is serious, the adoption process can be exacting and lengthy (generally six to twelve months). Nevertheless, an impressive number of the children find an adoptive home. Oklahoma City's KOCO, for example, has helped to place 92 of the 119 it has profiled. New York's WCBS, 21 out of 35; and Atlanta's WXIA, with Wednesday's Child conducted by Ellen Bryan...