Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is the FDA, which has continually stood between the American people and untested pharmaceutical products. The FDA recently proposed that simple and comprehensive information sheets be included with every new prescription drug. Although the agency estimates that the nation spends $20 billion dollars every year treating patients who fail to take their medicine properly or sustain serious side effects, their plan is nothing more than a regulatory yoke around the necks of the middle class. The FDA also spends months painstakingly testing new medicines--why not simply trust the drug companies to release safe and effective products directly...
THOSE NYE COUNTY, NEVADA, "COWBOYS" must have gazed at the moon until they lost their senses. Gene Autry predicted that such things could happen in the famous cowboy ballad Don't Fence Me In. What modern men fail to realize is that those open skies are open because they are owned and operated by the U.S. government. When activist Dick Carver climbed aboard his Caterpillar bulldozer to open a road in a national forest, he wasn't posturing for the independent Western man, he was lobbying for the cheap grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management...
...extension of this argument is that African-Americans believe that they can do nothing without government intervention, and that African-Americans fail to attempt self-motivated efforts to better themselves. The fact of the matter is that there are plenty of hard-working, self-motivated African-Americans (and Americans of all ethnic backgrounds) who continually lose in our economy for reasons that have nothing to do with self-deprecation or social policies...
...base, named after comedian Bob Hope, will be available on the chance that they will eventually proceed from proximity to togetherness. But initially, at least, they will stay in separate generals' quarters, chosen to head off any arguments as to who got the poshest accommodations. When direct talks fail, they will negotiate through U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who can move from one group to another, as he already has for almost three months. Secretary of State Warren Christopher can drop in quickly as and if needed...
...This is a written notice of unsatisfactory performance...If you fail to improve in two weeks, you will receive a written warning. If your performance still does not improve, you will receive a three day suspension. If your performance is still not up to standard, you will then be terminated," says the letter, which is signed by Jason W. Luke '94, associate manager of facilities maintenance operations...