Word: failed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...already desperately afraid for their own futures. It is one thing to see a neighbor lose a home. It is another to see companies which have been at the heart of the American business world fall apart in a matter of months. The effect of watching titans fail is as traumatic to the average person as the loss of his own job. Another job will come along, at some point. Citigroup will never come back...
This brings up a bigger question though. Why do we still call it add/drop? Why not just drop? Who is still shopping classes a month into the semester? Is there any class you could walk into today, add it, and not fail? Maybe Politics of Congress. But not much else...
...Five assists over two games fail to explain the forward’s full repertoire of passes—setting up teammates incisively, spraying the puck around the rink and breaching the Cornell defense...
...believed about the limits of his influence over events. The reconciliation process agreed to by Hamas and Fatah delegates in Cairo will include the holding of new elections in both Gaza and the West Bank, and Hamas is expected to once again emerge the winner. And, should reconciliation talks fail, Hamas is likely to prove stronger on the ground, and could even potentially topple Fatah in the West Bank, where opinion polls show that Hamas is currently more popular than Fatah. As Ben Ami and his colleagues wrote, the idea of a peace process that bypasses Hamas may now have...
...today’s humdrum realities, engaging a universal longing for something beyond the banal.But Holder’s material doesn’t spark much more interest than that. Title characters like “The Woman Who Sat on the Toilet for Two Years” fail to enthuse. What seems to be Holder’s heroic effort to show readers what lies beneath the grim faces he writes about is ultimately unsatisfying. To say that he even succeeds in rendering his insipid characters relatable is dubious. Is a woman “Training Her Pet?...