Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promises that can't be fulfilled, candidates and the council should choose one or two goals, like Core reform and interhouse card-key access, that students really care about and want to see happen before they graduate. We gave Rawlins a chance, and while she didn't completely fail, she didn't fulfill her promises. This time, students should vote for someone who really believes that, as Rawlins said in last week's debate, "Rhetoric is one thing and actions another...
...plenty of kids on the Corner at New Trier who started out as recreational users and now admit they can't stop. One prematurely wise senior voices disdain for "gumpy sophomores who think it's harmless." Some end up in rehab programs, which far more often than not fail initially with adolescents. The sad fact is that many will have a substance-abuse habit all their lives...
Unfortunately, not only do these people have a skewed view of boarding school, but they also fail to see that boarding schools have the potential to solve some of today's toughest campus issues. The small, intimate boarding school community lends itself to really getting to know other students for the people they are -- not for the superficial and stereotypical liberal lable-of-the-day. I think Dauber may be surprised to learn that boarding school exposed me to a greater diversity of people and ideas than I ever would have gotten at home in "suburbia." --Noble M. Hansen...
...Bill Clinton over Bob Dole 53-34, according to exit polls. The Republican Party will have major problems reaching out to women, particularly to working mothers. On the issues of funding for education and health care, and on the divisive issue of a woman's right to choose, Republicans fail to speak to the concerns of American women. Women now constitute a majority of the electorate--good news for the Democratic Party...
...addition to the cash settlement, Texaco has agreed to create an independent Equality and Tolerance Task Force that will be charged with ensuring that the company behaves itself in the future. Given that this Task Force will have the power to bring Texaco to court should the company fail to live up to its recommendations, it is conceivable that major improvements in the company's climate are inevitable...