Word: failed
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Hoffman asked what the American government would do after the various areas of current foreign policy fail. "Almost everybody agrees SDI won't work," he said. "The problem of what to do after there is a costly failure will be left to the next administration...
...important to the U.S. economy. "The semiconductor is at the heart of modern industrial processes," says Bruce Smart, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for International Trade. A flood of low-priced chips from Japan has squeezed the profits of U.S. chipmakers so severely that many of them could fail, thus leaving the country dependent on foreign supplies for a strategic resource. Says Smart: "If we were to be forced out of business and had to buy our semiconductors from foreigners, they would in effect control one of the vital parts of our industrial and military strength...
...with a man on to make it interesting, and Henderson did the same with two outs and two strikes to make it excruciating. "We're ballplayers," replied Henderson when asked how with one swing left in the season he managed to block out a mortal fear of failure. "We fail most of the time." Though the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and still had the bases loaded with only one out, Third Baseman Doug DeCinces and then Grich faltered in the clutch. After a couple of innings of outfielders' banging walls like cymbals clashing, Henderson...
...will fail to benefit or be hurt? Few native Cantabrigians will have enough resources to buy in the hottest real estate market in the U.S. Middle-income tenants who already can't afford to buy in the Massachusetts market and who can't or won't pay $1000 or more per month for old, small apartments will see the small supply of affordable rental housing in Cambridge disappear immediately. Essentially every tenant above the poverty income level will see his rent increase drastically despite no correspoonding increase in costs to the landlord or increase in the quality of the unit...
Harvard's science courses fail to provide students with the ethical and moral basis they need to responsibly assume their duties as scientists, Professor of History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn said at an open discussion on the ethical responsibilities of science yesterday...