Word: failed
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...President and Hillary Clinton hosted a conference on child care. "People in this country have to be able to succeed at work and at home," the President said, explaining the need for ensuring decent, affordable child care. "If they are worried sick about their children, they fail at work...
Perhaps the President's words are more telling than he intended. It seems that Americans are not worried that they will fail at work if their home lives are not secure, but that, as a result of their focus on work, they have failed at their homes lives and failed their families...
Tambiah said he feels that most students fail to get involved in local politics because they are insulated from outside affairs...
...should religious duty supervene on civic duty? At what price is the Dionysiac impulse repressed? On the other hand, what happens to society in a climate of total vengefulness? When does reason fail to account for our experience? Is the rejection of reason ultimately worth the danger it invites? Why does religious ecstasy give way to violence? And what does this say about our gods' anthropomorphism? Does the beauty of divine ritual withstand the "rage for meaning...
TIME set out to track the flow of cash through a single large urban district--Baltimore's--to test the widespread assumption that urban schools fail because they don't have the money to do better. Last year the city spent $646 million on 110,000 children for a per-pupil total of $5,873, just shy of Maryland's statewide average. Yet the money produced a student body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim...