Word: failed
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Thus, I never fail to be disappointed when the Oscars degenerate into a giant orgy of self-congratulation. But this year's ceremony dropped to an absolute, all-time, rock-bottom...
However, most lawmakers conceded the blueprint would fail to meet the $108 billion deficit target of the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law. Democrats argued it did more to cut red ink than any other option, including the president...
...MEMBERS of this community object to the University's insistence on freedom of speech and movement for all visitors, no matter how controversial the visitors' views. But at times proponents of these high-minded principles fail to consider individual situations in a practical and reasonable manner. Citing the necessity of maintaining basic freedoms at an academic institution, many people have condemned protesters for blocking two to three exits of the Science Center auditorium in which Duke Kent-Brown, a South African diplomat, appeared last month. But those who employ such rhetoric to criticize the protesters tend to ignore the legitimate...
...Iranscam. If present developments in the U.S. -- on which naturally one can make no judgment -- weaken the Administration and the President, that would be bad for everybody, for the U.S. and the free world. We need a strong U.S. Administration, one open to dialogue. So we would regret, and fail to understand, that impassioned reactions should put in question the authority of the Administration. Still, I am confident in President Reagan's ability to overcome these difficulties...
...smile and say, "Here I stand: I can do no other." Martin Luther washed up on the beaches of Malibu. But the Iran affair carried Reagan over into a strange, other dimension where both his candor and his principles proved corruptible, where his powers seemed to fail. It is a powerful irony that for all the differences, the Iran affair smacks of Watergate, in the sense that the abuse of the highest power undoes the king (the highest power manipulated by little knights, stupid and zealous). That one of the most beloved American Presidents should have found himself in danger...