Word: failed
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...even if Harvard and other schools fail to go as far as Johns Hopkins in limiting the MCAT's role, Foster and Hershbach say, the standardized entrance exam will continue to be reevaluated...
...School officials said that the standardized tests fail to aid the admissions office in selecting those individuals with "the greatest potential to become outstanding general managers" from the pool of highly talented applicants...
...gift for gab, a talent for making "the old feel young and the poor feel rich," as one friend puts it. Bunting favors disguises, what he calls "hidebehinds," becoming everything from a fish peddler to a buck dancer in order to confuse or disarm his prey. When these tricks fail, he calls upon oratorical ammunition. Confronted with some violators intent on ambushing him, he announces: "It is my duty to inform you that I am slick with a gun. I don't want to meet you in the Great Beyond and have you telling me that I didn't warn...
...terrorism had been refined, spruced up, made almost civilized for TV. The effect was strangely serene, almost lulling, at least until Conwell warned in his calm drawl, "If negotiations fail, we will be returned back to the original hijackers. Let me say, based on experience, that is something that I would find most unappealing." Lest reporters miss the point, a shadowy figure stalked in the background, hoisting...
Airlines that fail to slash costs during the next several years may wind up bankrupt, as Air Florida did last year, or be forced into a merger with more aggressive partners. One of the most likely candidates for a takeover, or even demise, is Pan Am, which has lost some $770 million since 1981. Though the company bought more time for itself by selling its Pacific routes to United, it has almost nothing left to dispose of without going out of business...