Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owner, he does. It's hard to answer. Actually, it's kind of Monopoly money. But we're putting in $20 million, which we had to borrow on a ^ recourse loan. So if I fail, I'm on the hook. But making $100 million was not my motive by any stretch of the imagination...
...third technique being used to clear blood vessels is balloon angioplasty, in which a tiny collapsed balloon is threaded into a blocked passage and inflated. Atherosclerotic plaque is crushed against the artery walls, widening the blood pathway. Yet another delicate operation entails tying off penile veins that fail to close during sexual arousal, thus allowing blood to leak away from the penis and inhibiting an erection. Vascular operations carry steep price tags...
...very few things we have in common in the U.S." U.S. English urges a written English-proficiency test for naturalization. It also advocates an end to bilingual ballots and an increase in funds for bilingual education, though only for short-term, transitional programs. Current bilingual courses, the group claims, fail students by weaning them from their mother tongues too slowly. "It is cultural maintenance, not language acquisition," says Workings...
...department stores, developing private-label garments has its risks. If poorly executed, they can fail just as severely as the most misguided high- fashion trend. But by gaining control over design and manufacturing, department-store merchants think they can stay in closer touch with the tastes of their customers. Case in point: when working women turned up their noses last year at the miniskirts offered by designers, many retailers rushed to offer house brands with hemlines more suited to the office environment. As such thread-to-thread competition intensifies, consumers are likely to be the real winners -- even if their...
...Harvard fail to live up to its advance billing this year? How does a championship team become a dud in one season...