Word: failed
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...Splash some on your own -- which may be Boris Yeltsin's thinking as he awaits President Clinton's September 1 visit. Russia's leader returned to his month-long vacation Tuesday, while his country reeled under the shock of Monday's ruble devaluation. "Should the latest package fail to stem the crisis, Russia's political establishment will be totally discredited," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "They have too often claimed to have found a way out of their economic woes, only to be proved wrong each time." Indeed, Yeltsin had insisted last Friday that all was well...
Sometimes evasions don't work, and when they fail, the President's memory fails too. Early in his first presidential campaign, he was asked how he had managed to avoid the draft. "I was just lucky, I guess," he replied (twinkle, twinkle). Only later, of course, did we discover that luck, as Mae West might have said, had nothing to do with it. As a candidate, he remembered almost none of the artful maneuvers and broken commitments that had allowed him to escape military service. "I'd been in public life a long time," he said, to explain his memory...
...Senate will hold hearings on the matter. Thompson says the hearings are an important chance for Americans to become more aware of the awful conditions in some of the nation's nursing homes. His second installment of this sordid tale appears this week. And if nursing-home operators fail to meet the stricter regulations, you can bet there will be a third...
...expansion clubs--that Bud Selig, Brewers owner and "acting" commissioner for nearly six ugly years, crawled back into daylight to crown himself "real" commissioner this month. "The fact that we were doing so well had something to do with it, definitely," he says. When all other business plans fail, find a guy you can compare to Babe Ruth...
...find an airline that's willing to take you. But will this replace your traditional travel agent? Do you really want to do your own travel planning? That's the crux of the conflict at the heart of this new economy: which services will survive and which will fail, who will invent new ideas (and reap new millions) and who will close up shop, as useless today as buggy-whip manufacturers became when Henry Ford built the Model...