Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidencies end in failure or disgrace, perhaps it should have been expected that Americans might make a special effort to let Reagan off easy. We have saved Reagan's presidency time and time again by lowering our expectations of him to such an extent that he could not possibly fail...
...same time, Lt. Col. Oliver North was working on contingency plans to continue private assistance, should the aid package fail...
...court was looking only at the relatively small number of aliens who ask for asylum annually; applications recently have averaged 20,000 a year. Three years ago, it ruled that portions of the Immigration and Nationality Act permit the Government to deport certain aliens who fail to show a "clear probability" that they will be persecuted in their home country. Under another section of that law, many such aliens have been allowed to seek from the Justice Department a discretionary grant of asylum. But this alternative was of little practical benefit because in order to be eligible, they were often...
Date rape sometimes occurs after the victim has taken drugs or one drink too many. Whether under the influence or not, victims frequently classify the rape as a hazy, regrettable experience that was somehow their own fault. "And because often they don't even see it as rape, they fail to seek support professionally," says Burkhart. "They are left without a way of understanding it, so they bury it, feeling guilty and ashamed...
...come to expect this sort of idiocy from the school of no-fail academics and extracurricular prostitution--not to mention suicide pills and Amy Carter. In upcoming years, which for Brown concentrations in Zen Basketweaving and Gay and Lesbian Studies...