Word: failed
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Despite the spate of rumors, Tarses says she has been reassured that her job is not in jeopardy. "Basically I've been assured I'll be given time to fail," she says. That is echoed by her boss, ABC president Robert Iger. "The speculation as to whether we're happy or unhappy with her is ridiculously premature," says Iger. "She has my support. We have a very talented person in Jamie Tarses, and as far as we're concerned she's the right person for that job." Still, Tarses is realistic--or fatalistic--enough to know that such support could...
...want to seem self-pitying. But it seems to me that rarely has a week gone by since I've taken the job that I haven't been attacked for one thing or another somewhere in the press. There are a lot of people bent on seeing me fail...
...motion, expected to fail over-whelmingly, was rejected only after a voice vote proved inconclusive and the resulting head count totaled 45 for, 86 against...
Noting that approval of his plan to include smaller, seminar-style courses in the Core would be "a shot heard round the country, if not the world," Marquand Professor of English Lawrence Buell began to defend a motion he admitted was likely to fail. The motion met unanimous opposition within the Faculty Council last week...
Buell began by nothing that "in my entire career, I have never played Don Quixote, at least not knowingly: that is, press a cause that looked certain to fail...