Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began last October. Until that month, President Ronald Reagan had been flying high. After playing upon that summer's drug hysteria the way a Horowitz plays upon a Steinway--only to fail to come through with the money or resources to actually do something about substance abuse--the President reaped the benefits of a popular tax reform bill with which he had little to do and, in fact, the concept of which he long had opposed. Then, during the first week of October, the cargo plane of one Eugene Hasenfus, an American mercenary, was shot down inside Nicaragua trying...
International financier Robin Tavistock '62also criticized Americans. The British native saidAmericans often fail in foreign markets becausethey assume international businessman understandtheir culture and language...
...could remain unsuspecting after the burning of the synagogues...? Whoever opened his eyes and ears and sought information could not fail to notice that Jews were being deported...When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything...
...Crimson, normally a bastion of liberalism, fail to back Adlai Stevenson, one of the most respected liberal politicians of his time? Why, instead, did it choose to endorse a comic strip character? Was it all just a joke...
...hostages to Cyprus by boat. A Perot courier flew to the island, sat around for a week waiting vainly for the hostages to show up, and returned with the cash. Although Perot was out $300,000, he is taking his loss philosophically. Says he: "I would rather try and fail than...