Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most critics fail to point out why Jerry Lee Lewis has been able to sustain his career for more than 25 years in a business noted for its casualty rate [March 14]. The reason is his relationship with music. Of the American singers of the rock era, only Jerry Lee has kept his performances and recordings alive by paying tribute to the nation's musical heritage of blues, gospel, country and rock 'n' roll...
...funds for military personnel are cut, who will operate the high-tech weapons systems? The legislators who drew up the defense budget fail to recognize that the military's most valuable asset is its people, not its weapons...
...sure Weirton will survive under new ownership, and that naturally makes some of the workers edgy. "I'm not saying the plan is going to fail," says Blacksmith Thomas Troia, 57, whose father and four brothers have worked at Weirton. "It may be a perfect thing. But you don't know. You have to go with what you have, not with what may be. I imagine there will be a lot of older fellows going...
...have all these midterms. I'm going to fail--I just know it. We get back our Brinkley tests today and I got an Expos term paper due tomorrow and an Ec test today and a math test today and another paper due right when we get back...
...plot is simple young, fabulously wealthy, wildly extravagant and supposedly beautiful Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) stops doing the Charleston on Istanbul tabletops long enough to learn that she has 12 days to lind her long lost father. Should she fail to exhibit him in a British court in that time he will be declared dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick...