Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child cannot live up to the parent's public success (no matter how awful the parent might have been in private). And only modest success seems a dramatic falling off: the Sean Lennon, Gary Crosby, Nancy Sinatra syndrome. But Prince William's future seems assured; he can hardly fail to surpass his father...
DENVER: Clinton, on a three-day fundraising swing through the West on Monday, pledged several measures that would put "deadbeat dads" on the legal hot seat. For one, he said he would eliminate a loophole that allows fathers who fail to pay child support to escape punishment just because they live in another state. He also announced a cooperative effort between states and the U.S. Postal Service to display "wanted" posters of delinquent parents alongside those of murderers and bank robbers. "No one should be able to escape the responsibility of bringing a child into this world," Clinton said. Coupled...
...Canada) who always lived there. Since these issues are standard--wild father, overcompensatingly strict son, and day-dreaming third generation--these sub-plots are more valuable for the amusing ironies that come forth. For example, Otis keeps a back-shed museum of black Seminole artifacts and doesn't fail to point out to Delmore's son, who stumbles in, that it was the Delmore's beloved Army that drove these Native Americans west and away...
...small but persistent group of critics, many of them supported by the oil and coal industries, still don't buy it. S. Fred Singer, president of the industry-funded Science and Environment Policy Project, argues that Epstein and his colleagues fail to note the positive health benefits of warmer nights and winters. Others, like John Shlaes, executive director of the Global Climate Coalition, suggest that when the world is faced with the pressing health problems stemming from overcrowded cities and the collapse of sanitation systems, the threat of disease caused by climate change may seem like a minor concern...
...phenomenon is here to stay, for a while. Hollywood is launching more than a dozen science-fiction movies within the next year or so. Besides Mars Attacks! (a gleefully nihilistic vaudeville that promises to play Dr. Strangelove to ID4's relatively docudramatic Fail-Safe) and the inevitable sequels and remakes of Alien, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lost in Space, you'll see big-budget versions of thoughtful sci-fi novels: Carl Sagan's Contact (directed by Robert Zemeckis), Michael Crichton's Sphere (Barry Levinson) and Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven...