Word: failed
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Faith in a constitutional democracy becomes imperiled when the interests of an established elite marginalize the representation of popular opinion. Likewise, institutional structures representing the interests of a select community lose their legitimacy when they fail to include at least nominal community participation. While institutions are well within their right to direct policy according to administrative prerogatives alone, they are, in effect, compromising a genuine perspective of the constituency they stand to represent for the perpetuation of elitist pretense...
Jane is a plain, spinster-like divorcee, brimming with outwardly cheerful criticisms of her daughter's college antics that fail to show her daughter that she does in fact care about her welfare. Her verbal shots are accompanied by jerky, robotic gestures that reveal an underlying tension but are somewhat artificial and unconvincing. Azalea is the flowering know-it-all. Stubborn and unreceptive to motherly advice, she snaps defensively in response to every comment. She is a liberated student who savors the right to drink a glass of wine at lunch, if only for the shock value...
...many considerations must be taken into account before deciding to institute an honor code. Rudenstine offered that scale and location make a difference and that "the more comprehensive [a code is], the more likely it is to fail...
...students on school grounds all day, except for about 300 juniors and seniors whose parents give permission for them to leave. But even a wealthy, concerned alma mater like New Trier can't fill the shoes of parents who either don't care that their kids are smoking or fail at the task of stopping them. "How could a school eradicate it?" asks New Trier's superintendent, Henry S. Bangser. "Schools have a responsibility to address the problem, but students didn't learn to do drugs here, and mostly they don't do it here...
...LINE SKATERS who fail to wear wrist guards and elbow pads are 10 times as likely to be injured as those who don safety gear. That makes pads and guards as statistically protective as helmets are for bikers...