Word: failed
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Instead of accurately depicting the course of a campaign, media polls merely register a snapshot of constantly fluctuating popularity. Media polls fail to gauge more important factors, such as the willingness of a supporter to switch to another candidate or the organizational strength of a campaign. The more cautious and probing surveys conducted by the campaigns themselves take into consideration these factors, which are often key to the voters' final decision...
...giants. Bad. All of industry these days talks like an executive fitness center, in terms of slimming down and wising up. The brayings of protectionists suggest that the onetime home of swaggering competitiveness is beginning to see itself as a large island fort, and even if the protectionist mentality fails to carry the day (as it ought to fail), one rarely hears the opposite talk that the best...
...Harvard College of 1989 should not be allowed to pass off its rightful responsibilities to its female undergraduates. If seminars, externships or special administrators are needed, the College itself should have them. To ask anything less of the College is to excuse it for failing to become a place where women can compete on an equal footing with men--or to fail to acknowledge its success in becoming such a place. Either is unfair to both Harvard and its women...
...elsewhere about federal assistance to farmers, despite the state's agricultural base. Some 55% of Republicans at large favor increased aid, vs. 48% in Iowa. Among Democrats, support for an increase drops from 72% nationwide to 58% in Iowa. The state's long, intimate experience with federal programs that fail...
...tragic because the international agencies were well prepared to cope with the famine this time around. The U.N. and the Ethiopian government kept abreast of agricultural conditions through an "early warning system" that included satellite surveillance of farming areas. Months ago, at the first sign that the rains might fail, the agencies acted. One of the first nations to dispatch aid was the U.S., whose Agency for International Development is still bitter over charges that it did not do enough during the last crisis...