Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unpublished memoir that Yeltsin's mood, morale and appetite for work all took a turn for the worse as early as 1994. The nasty little secret in the history of Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin is that the President was in decline long before his health began to fail openly last year...
...center of Clark's poise lies in his characters--canny women and conflicted men earnestly striving to balance duty and desire. When his people fail to live up to their highest standards, he sees it not as hypocrisy but frailty and responds not with judgment but understanding...
...very telling of the objectivist cult-following that it should regard the poor and the unsuccessful (who are the brunt of their joke) as failures. In objectivists' eyes, the poor fail willingly because all people have and have enjoyed equal opportunity, have entered this world with equal freedoms to flex equal minds. They believe that every wealthy and successful individual is so because of his or her "productivity," that the uncreative and less intelligent and less talented should suffer for their fruitlessness, and ultimately, that our civil society should feel no obligation to them...
...Clarence Anthony Jasper II. Though midway through college before the learning disability was discovered, Ennis enrolled in a short program that quickly prepared him to deal with his dyslexia and to fully master reading. That relegated his father's old joke about him to the dustbin. ("How can you fail English?" "Yeah," he replied.) He became an informal consultant on his father's show, making a couple of rare visits to the studio to talk about dyslexia--Theo Huxtable was also graduating from college after overcoming that disability. In a paper he would write, cited on Larry King Live last...
...official languages are not her concern. Her goal, she said, is to address the 1.8 grade point average of black students in the Oakland school district, which compares with an average 3.0 for white and Asian students. One result: 20 percent of blacks who reach 12th grade in Oakland fail to graduate. While members of the subcommittee commented that teaching ebonics was ?absurd,? the issue they must decide is whether to allow federal money targeted to teaching foreign languages to be used for the controversial program...