Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Addressing approximately 30 students in Government 1790, "U.S. Foreign Policy," Kalb said, "Gorbachev is making a major effort to inject reform into a stagnant system. He has begun to tinker with the system, but he will fail unless he can change the monopoly of power by the Party...
...council seems little more than a club in which undergraduates can push papers, make speeches and play at being bureaucrats. They themselves fail to take the challenge of student government seriously. Several intelligent and committed members of the council, including serious candidates for the body's top offices, decided not to make a bid in the general election, citing their frustration with the body...
...isolations of military life. "The Barracks Thief" is about a boy so angry he has no space for other emotions; he falls naturally into soldiering. "Soldier's Joy" hearkens back to the emotional territory of "The Barracks Thief." The story, like its predecessor, is about how soldiers socialize, or fail to socialize with one another...
...fasters hold on to their hope and seem determined to continue until they die or sink into comas. They recognize that the fast may fail, is failing. But they say it is worth it if their fast or even their deaths could bring a change in the public or the policy of our country...
...civil war," said Gerasimov, who was visibly disturbed by Brockunier's charge. Explaining the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, the official said, "We don't want this revolution to fail...