Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look like the prelude to it. Within half an hour of the submarine's discovery, a platoon of soldiers was guarding the wreck. Navy special forces found a machine gun, a rifle, ammunition and 100 grenades aboard, along with a note that read, "We must accomplish the mission without fail." Two hours later, the Defense Ministry declared a full combat alert and launched the hunt. Tens of thousands of troops, police and reservists ringed an area 30 miles in radius and began a sweep through the rugged valleys...
...plan to raise an army of one million volunteers to ensure that all third-graders can read has the potential to wipe out illiteracy in this country. Of course, it is legitimate to be cynical as to whether Clinton can, or will, implement this bold plan. But if we fail to at least see the potential, then it is us, and not the candidates, who are uninspired...
...addition, I have a great opportunity to get in shape, given the proximity of the Q-RAC and the invigorating walk that gives me an acute sense of alertness in Stats 100. But just to ensure that I fail in my efforts to become an athletic machine, each Quad house offers the irresistible temptation of cable television, whether you would prefer to watch the Cambridge Zoning Board on Public Access Television, the World's Strongest Man Competition on the Deuce, or the creative and ground-breaking new Hootie video...
...offer America beside himself? Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd. Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp, and so it was he who made a fine selection for a ticket bound to fail alongside its success-proof policies...
...case and have been filing motions to defuse them. The plaintiffs' lawyers want to exclude all testimony regarding possible evidence tampering and racist cops. Simpson's attorney, Robert C. Baker, has moved to exclude anything pertaining to violence between Nicole and O.J. Both motions are likely to fail, and a controversial new California law, which permits statements of crime victims to be admitted in court, will open the door to a dramatic reading of Nicole's diary, in which she describes Simpson's beating her. Those entries were excluded as hearsay during the criminal proceedings...