Word: failed
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Harvard seems to have secured the sixth seed, yet should it fail to defeat either Dartmouth or Vermont, and should Brown win both of its contests against the same teams, Harvard would fall to the seventh seed. The seventh team must play an extra round in the ECAC tournament. ECAC STANDINGS ECAC Overall Team W L T W L T Vermont 15 2 3 21 5 4 St. Lawrence 15 3 2 19 9 2 Clarkson 15 4 1 21 7 2 Cornell 13 3 4 16 7 4 Colgate 13 5 2 17 11 2 Harvard...
...seems few people comprehend the grave implications of Buchanan's appeal. Responses to his growing power are disappointing in that they fail to address the anti-democratic (with a lower-case "d") and un-American nature of Buchanan's beliefs. Many Republicans see his corporate bashing and economic protectionism as an affront to and betrayal of their party platform, ideas which reach out to a Democratic constituency. In addition, they mourn the fact that his ultra-conservatism is giving the party a bad reputation and posing an unexpected challenge to the more moderate Bob Dole, who fares a far better...
...bombarded with information about presidential politics from the traditional sources of news, these outlets are producing less and less of the kind of information useful in deciding among candidates. And with the proliferation of "gotcha" questions, scandal hunts and polls, it is equally apparent that the mainstream media fail to provide candidates any real opportunity to air their views...
...create teams that would then undertake the negotiations. The I.R.A. vehemently opposes this. But though tempers rose, everybody kept talking. And as long as the talking continued, went the hopeful reasoning, a way forward would somehow be found. The desire for peace was too strong for it to fail. Now the hard men of the I.R.A. have brought those prospects crashing to earth...
...refer, of course, to thievery. The students who can ace the SAT and crack the LSAT fail miserably when they attempt to steal money from student organizations. In the last few years, embezzlement scandals have been all to frequent at the College. Yet, most of the thieves have shown a complete lack of criminal skill or ingenuity...