Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ordinary lymphocytes attack and destroy bacteria but usually fail to kill tumors. The MGH researchers theorize that lymphocytes stimulated with the drug may be able to destroy or at least limit the growth of cancer tumors...
What can be done to help these people? I think our friends down at the QRR office might have a few pointers. We could establish a diagnostic obscenity test (DOT) for all incoming freshmen, one which stresses proper context and conjugation, and provide remedial courses for those who fail...
...never forget that moment of magic potential. In a flash I understood that it would be utterly impossible to fail with a double-play combination named Spike and Marty...
...refuse to hire a member of the Communist Party, no matter what his qualifications (I say "his" because there was hardly any chance that Harvard might hire a woman, communist or otherwise). Each generation, it seems, has its own test of conscience. Why do the presidents of Harvard always fail? Robert Paul Wolff...
...late '70s -- fast, clean, fun! -- has been boiled down to hard and mean little pellets of crack, giver of euphoria, taker of lives. To a nation that espouses self-reliance, drug dependence has emerged as the dark side of the American character, the price of freedom to fail. It is as if America, so vain and self-consciously fit, has looked upon itself and suddenly seen the hideously consumptive portrait of Dorian Gray...