Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jade's thin facade of compliance is shattered, however, when she meets Mark, a while English student. While Jade's arranged dates continue to fail, her relationship with Mark grows. Predictably, it's not long before she is forced to decide whether she'll submit to her parents' wishes or live her own life...
...Economists warn that without a new round of reforms soon, Vietnam's progress will end. But the impressive gains so far may have made many officials overconfident. Boasts Vo Dai Luoc, director of the World Economy Institute, a think tank in Hanoi: "Always the outsiders predict we will fail. And always they are wrong...
...other words, randomization will probably meet the goal of diversity in houses such as Cabot and New Leverett; it will fail miserably in houses such as Eliot. The old river houses will probably find their populations even more isolated from other blocking groups and defeating the original intention of diversification. Although I would welcome more diversity in my house, looking at how its dynamics function now, I am very skeptical about whether randomization will overcome the obstacle of architecture. Gene...
...most part, the answer is no. We see Marler worry about and eventually pass his General Exams in the Harvard English department, struggle with a psychotic roommate and fail in the pursuit of Pamela, an enigmatic novelist, but none of these things make the leap from anecdote to art. The monologue often relies on mere local reference to keep the audience interested. We get a sort of thrill from hearing places and people we know mentioned on stage. When Marler does strive for larger meaning, he usually achieves only pretension--as with the title, which has no more concrete meaning...
Mack says most of the arguments againstabduction fail to explain all five fundamentalaspects of the phenomenon: the consistency ofstories among widely separated people, the absenceof personal psychopathology that could account forthese experiences, associated physical findingssuch as scars and reports of missing people, theassociation between UFO sightings and abductionreports and the reports of the phenomena inchildren under three...