Word: failed
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...ecological disaster. Droughts and famines were reported as early as 253 B.C. In the great drought of 1888, a third of the population is said to have died from malnourishment and disease. This latest calamity is part of a 30-year pattern that has seen the rains repeatedly fail along the Sahel, the wide swath of land that cuts Africa in half just below the Sahara. After the 1984-85 drought, which killed an estimated 2 million people in Africa, there was a brief period of uncommon optimism in Addis Ababa. In 1985 and 1986 the rains were good...
...younger DuPont said his father believes the Social Security system will fail unless the government persuades some citizens to forgo their benefits. DuPont's plan would offer workers the chance to invest their Social Security payments in a tax-free account instead of paying the required fee to the Social Security system...
...banes of my existence, seeing hair where it just shouldn't be. Hair gives me the willies when it lies around in unusual places, so imagine my angst at having to live daily with a new clump of hair on my toothpaste every morning without fail year after year...
...misuse of condoms, but such misuse is endemic to them. And the technical problems of condom use are only heightened when used by homosexuals engaging in anal intercourse. The chief AIDS epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control told The New York Times this summer that condoms fail more often during anal than vaginal intercourse because the former is likely to involve "trauma" that may rip or pull off the condom...
...imperial Japanese boot. Still, they must have injected an unwelcome dose of maturity into the man with a lock on childhood. The films produced recently under his aegis have fizzled at the box office. His TV series, Amazing Stories, limped through its two-year run. Could he ever fail? He could. Not enough to hurt, just enough to dim his luster...