Word: failed
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...that wouldn't really count, they nonetheless felt like AP exams at the time. Yet even around the tests lies an aura of nostalgia. I still remember discussing with a new friend, later to be a Quincy House roommate, several questions from the first QRR test I was to fail. En route to lunch, we had a heated, if good-spirited, argument about standard deviations...
...those methods fail, other options range from chemical sprays to shotguns that fire beanbags. And the use of such impact devices as batons has dropped from more than 1,000 incidents 10 years ago to just 63 last year. "The side-handle baton is so heavily associated with the King incident that they just don't want to be caught using it," says Randy Minini, a sergeant in charge of physical training. "Use of force has become the most controversial aspect of police work...
...allowing them to serve even in the riskiest specialties, has become irresistible. Irresistible, that is, when that pressure is applied to the Pentagon by wily Lillian DeHaven, a U.S. Senator whose scheming soul Anne Bancroft inhabits with rip-snorting relish. The brass, of course, expect O'Neil to fail and prove their patronizing assumptions about gals in combat. There even comes a moment when the Senator, faced with base closings in her state, is willing to trade principles for political survival...
When United Parcel Service (UPS) workers went on strike two weeks ago, they intended to impair the shipping company's business; yet the labor dispute may also hurt students and professors this fall when needed text fail to arrive at academic bookstores across the nation...
Though only well-paid women, like those in her survey, may be able to heed McKenna's advice to trade some income for more time, all working men and women can benefit from her suggestions to learn how to fail, say no to bosses and assignments, and separate who you are from what you do. Such prescriptions for redefining worth and success are not abundantly simple, but they are abundantly sane...