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Word: failed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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TAKE the First Street Cafe as an example. It's a new restaurant with a Southwestern twist. Its windows offer a scenic view of the Charles River. It's also right next door to the Lechmere department store. But the restaurant's owners fail to see the contradiction...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: East Cambridge Toodle-Oo | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

...sure-fire, fail-safe means to land the woman of his dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joy in Beantown | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...opener. If you needed work--now--if Mommy and Daddy died abruptly (and--why not--violently), without a will, and Harvard disintegrated into a moldy pile of fellowship applications and GRE pamphlets, who would hire you and for how much? That wasn't the point of this search, but fail-safes are worth remembering...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...epostane to be 84% effective in women five to eight weeks pregnant. Suction abortions, the usual surgical method, have a 96%-98% success rate. While both drugs allow women to avoid the dangers of surgery and anesthesia, they do carry a small risk of causing excessive bleeding. Should they fail, surgical abortion would be urged, since the drugs could damage the surviving fetus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: After-The-Fact Birth Control | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...long. There are moments when Bogosian looks uncertain, when a gesture looks forced or when he seems as if he's about to break character completely. One hopes that Bogosian's stay at the ART will allow him to see when the various bits fall apart or fail to sustain themselves...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: All My Brain and Body Need | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

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