Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...develop permanent immunity and allowed scientists to develop vaccines that were effective year after year. The influenza virus, however, is constantly changing the configuration of its surface proteins. Because of these changes, immune-system antibodies, developed in response to either a vaccination or a previous case of flu, fail to recognize and attack the altered virus. As a result, flu -- in ever changing forms -- returns again and again...
...cares. At Harvard everyone complains constantly that they have so much work to do--work that was already due, work that they blew off all day, work that they aren't doing, work that they should be doing because if they don't do it now they surely will fail everything and not get into graduate school and have a horrible poverty-striken life with a pain-in-the-butt spouse and lots of ugly slimy kids whose faces will melt...
Parity, however, does not true equality make. Renovations fail to address the problems which Quad residents have to deal with every day. The big one is distance. No one enjoys waking up 15 minutes early in order to brave a long walk in sub-freezing weather. The unreliable shuttle bus system--which boasts twisted, slow routes and infrequent departures--does little to ease the problem. Because University life--socially, extracurricularly, and academically--is centered around the river, separate but equal is inherently unequal...
Similarly, we should not let the current debate about a single technological utopia such as SDI so dominate our thinking that we fail to evaluate its various dimensions in relation to alternative visions of the long-term future. A responsible moral approach to the nuclear future requires us to avoid large risks to the crucial values of survival and freedom that we must pass on to future generations, and to make continual efforts to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons whenever that does not increase risks. Such an approach requires hard thinking about uncertain probabilities and proportionate risks rather than succumbing...
...through cold, leaden seas and righted on site by flooding chambers at the base. On paper the task seemed simple; in practice it required judgment, skill and luck that almost defy imagination. Some Third World jobs defy common sense. The designers of a bridge over an Indian river fail to account for winds that shake the structure apart. Faussone's description might be a passage from Joseph Conrad: "One after the other, we heard what sounded like shots from a cannon. I counted: there were six of them. It was the vertical suspensions snapping: they snapped neatly, at the level...